Readings for Week 3

Kitchen Sisters (producer) (28 April 2000). "French Manicure" NPR> Lost and Found Sound.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1073505

Philip Tagg, "Reading Sound"

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/tagg.pdf

playing with urls

check out the National Conversation on Writing.

http://www.ncow.org/

Public Domain: Sounds, Images, Audio, Video

Many sounds/images/video clips are available for your use. Items in the public domain are free and clear of copyright restrictions.

Free, public domain sound, images, audio: http://www.archive.org

Free, public domain sounds: http://www.pdsounds.org/catalog
[Free Sound Library: Public Domain Sounds]

Free, public domain sound, images, audio: http://www.djusd.k12.ca.us/technology/images.htm

Free music: http://freeplaymusic.com

Audacity: Download/Install

Install Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

It's free and it's safe. And wonderfully easy to use.

Audacity Tools: Live Recording (advanced)

For the most part, we'll be using Audacity to edit sound recorded elsewhere. But you can record something live into Audacity via a microphone.

Here's how: http://sharepoint.chiles.leon.k12.fl.us/techportal/Flat%20World/audacity_quick_guide.pdf

or

http://www.utexas.edu/student/esl/computer/audacity-new.pdf

Sometimes Audacity is useful in recording something you can't seem to download and port into Audacity but are able to actually *play* on your computer. If you need it and would like to work with it, simply play it on your computer and record that sound via the method described above.

Just FYI

inspiration (audio)

Inspiration

We will be working on audio for the next few weeks, so lets begin collecting some sharable links.

Here are a few:
1. Quiet American: http://www.quietamerican.org/introduction.html
[fieldrecordings]

2. Sounds from New York: http://www.soundsofnewyork.com/

3. Sound artifacts from _Lost and Found Sound_: http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/audio/index.html

4. "Worlds of Sound": A Tribute to Folkways: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96820123

[story about sound collector Moses Asch (Folkways Records)]

5. "Daisy Ad" Creator Tony Schwartz Dies (2008): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91562400

6. Tony Schwartz, 30,0000 Recordings Later (Lost and Found Sound: A Man Who Stayed in the Neighborhood): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3602539

7. An *incredible* resource for innovative uses of sound--in art, in science, "sound mapping" (ala google maps, etc), sound art, "soundscapes."
http://www.acousticecology.org/soundscapelinks.html

8. Audio Postcard: The National Hollerin' Contest"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723224

earlier report on the National Hollerin' Contest: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1076273

7. "My T-shirt Says It All" (audio): http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_2009.asp
Interesting audio about something that's visual, through and through. How cool is that?

8. This American Life
http://www.thislife.org

One fascinating example: "Accidental Documentaries" (7/13/07)
another: "Twentieth Century Man": http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1207

Also interesting: "The Audio Picture Show," especially "A Sense of Place"
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_2004.asp

9. Shortlists ("A Short List is made from your experience or research or daily life. You read it out loud for about 60 seconds and then tell su at the end what the list *was*").
http://transom.org/?p=4

10. Podcasts: http://transom.org/?p=149

(and video): Home Movie Day--10.17.09: http://www.homemovieday.com/
More on home movie day: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1398009

Tips
--for recording in the field: http://www.quietamerican.org/links_diy-rec_tips.html
--on storytelling (from This American Life host Ira Glass): http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/03/ira_glasstips_o.html

Daley article (etc)

Wrong url--
Sorry, folks! I posted the wrong url in the previous note.

Daley's article is at http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/Daley.pdf

Also available online:

1. urls to the projects I shared 1/23: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/inspiration.pdf

2. directions for setting up a blog (use freely and widely): http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/blogger-directions.doc

3. Powerpoint: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/597-wk1.ppt

If you wish to read ahead (presented in no order)--
Tagg's essay: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/tagg.pdf

Selfe, "The Movement of Air": http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/SelfeCCC9March07.pdf

Selfe and Selfe, "Convince me!" Valuing Multimodal Literacies and Composing Public Service Announcements (PSAs)": http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/SelfePSAs.pdf

Raney, "New Media, New English": http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/raney.pdf

Readings for Week 2

Listen: 

Solomon, John.  "Pulling Back the Curtain" On the Media, from NPR

Read:

Daley, Elizabeth. "Expanding the Concept of Literacy." EDUCAUSE Review (2003): 33-40. 

 

(and MC's Chapter 1)

Blogs in Plain English

Length: 3:01

Date Published: November 30 2007

A short introduction to blogs--how they work and why they matter. 

Transcript: http://commoncraft.com/store/blogs-transcript

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog for Writing with New Media.  Check back often for updates about our course and links to our course texts. 

I'd love to add your blogs to our "blogroll" (see right). That's a list of blogs we are watching. 

If you are new to blogs, give it a try. Blogger is *very* easy to use, and a blog is a very good way to keep us updated on your progress, collect good examples of new media projects you'd like to share, and exchange drafts of your own work/ideas. 

If you are already blogging, share that with us. If you develop a blog, we'd love to link up with that as well.  Just send me your url and I'll add it to the blogroll!

(on the image: The superhero above has a secret identity called Shannon Carter. That amuses me, thus the image of American Dream.)