This is possibly the best parody I’ve heard, and I think it’s a perfect example of how students can use just audio to create a compelling new narrative.
PSU #4life
September 29, 2011 By
I was fortunate enough to visit the great folks at Penn State University last week. And it is amazingly to me that we found time between #drunkcasts on #ds106radio to sit down with the E-Portfolio crew, the Digital Commons crew, as well as an interview with Jamie Oberdick for a Daily Buzz episode.
The trip was a total blast and I have to thank both Cole Campelese and Brad Kozlek for making the trip so smooth. What’s more, I have to acknowledge how locked and inspired the PSU edtech community truly is. For almost 8 hours in a variety of forms (i.e., interview, open discussions, presentation, etc.) we talked everything from eportfolios, ds106, WordPress, blogging platforms, as well as a few other things. Brad Kozlek has been ruminating on those discussions and I totally agree with him that frame an infrastructure at PSU (one of, if not the, biggest research university in the country) to crack the nut of enabling students to control their own space for learning, archiving, and reflection but feeding it out cleanly to a community or network effects is huge. We haven’t fully got our heads around this, but I have no doubt that will change once PSU puts some it’s seemingly boundless talent behind this issue.
I’ll check in with the PSU folks to see if there is a link to the presentation video/audio, but in the meantime if you are interested in some of the conversations we had at PSU, check out Jamie Oberdick’s interview below:
Update: And here is the video of the presentation at PSU titled “A Domain of One’s Own.”
Audio Resources on the Web
September 22, 2011 By
Over the summer, I took a variety of interesting classes. The most interesting was a Computer Science course called Digital Storytelling. One week of assignments had to do with creating audio narratives. I expected these projects to be challenging, not only because I don’t think strongly in terms of sound, but also because I didn’t know of many sites on the web that offered sound bites freely available for use (see: Creative Commons). Thankfully, my professors had taken it upon themselves to solve this problem for us and compile a useful list of websites.
Sounds by Fey Ilyas on Flickr
If you’re not taking a music course or something like Digital Storytelling where the professor is directly asking you to for some kind of audio work, you might find that a bit of audio spruces up an otherwise visual-only presentation (think PowerPoint, or a video project). You might be surprised!
Here are the resources:
Freesound.org — A site that aims to create a “huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps,” and is all available under the Creative Commons license.
Free Music Archive — The FMA is directed by the WFMU, “the most renowned freeform radio station in America,” and was created out of the belief that the radio has always been a venue to offer free public access to new music and should continue to do so. However, this purpose is often undermined by licenses that were not made in (and could not predict) the digital era. Here at FMA, you will find great mp3s you can feel good about downloading.
ccMixter — This is a self-described “community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.” Here you’ll find the opportunity to be endlessly creative and mingle with fellow music lovers.
Internet Archive — The Internet Archive is a fascinating place that I have yet to really explore. The IA is attempting to create an Internet library in an age and space where sites and sounds are ephemeral. Content that appears on a site one day may be completely different the next. This is a great stop for more than just audio.
Poetic Voices
October 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For the last year and a half, students of Marie McAllister have been creating a listening archive of 18th century poetry. The project, which began as an effort to help students struggling to understand older poetry, operates under the premise that hearing someone read a poem aloud can help clarify its meaning. In addition, the creators of the site also believe that listening to poetry is fun and that many of these texts were written with the intention that they would be read aloud and serve as a source of entertainment.
Every semester, Professor McAllister’s students have added additional poems to the archive, both in the form of orginal recordings and by linking to the wealth of audio resources available through sites like PennSound and LibriVox.The archive currently has over 250 poems listed, and it continues to grow.
We leave you with a poem listed in the archive, Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to her Book” read by Alan Davis-Drake and available at LibriVox.
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