Now that you’ve researched your recording, it’s time to revise and record your draft as a podcast and upload it to our collective publication, The Phono Project. In this lesson you will learn how to: Revise your written draft to be listener-friendly. Use Audacity to mix your spoken script with your cropped recording. [includes YT […]
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Task 3: Making stuff with digital archives
In the first two weeks of this module you learned how to use three examples of new media that help writers compose digitally: Audacity, SoundCoud, and WordPress. This week we begin to focus on how we might use new media to revisit old media — media that has been digitally and publicly archived — in […]
Task 2: Blogging with WordPress
Listening in In the early 2000s (when many of you were toddlers), amateur music lovers published mp3 blogs — posting on sites like Blogger or LiveJournal, these bloggers shared and wrote about emerging artists who were sometimes themselves creating music using DIY tools like Pro Tools and Garageband. MP3s, as you learned last week, are […]
Task 1: Soundwriting with Audacity
Wednesday, March 31 This week you’ll be introduced to two tools: one you likely know well (Google Drive) and another that is probably very unfamiliar to you (Audacity). The overarching goal of this week is to familiarize yourselves with tools and processes for revising writing for a different mode; that is, you’ll be drafting writing […]