An Apology for Audio Assignments in First-Year Writing Classrooms

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An Apology for Audio Assignments in First-Year Writing Classrooms Harley Ferris & Ryan Trauman University of Louisville 11 April 2013

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A pedagogy workshop facilitated by Harley Ferris & Ryan Trauman @ the University of Louisville, 11 April 2013. In this workshop, we present an example assignment tailored specifically for First Year writing classes while discussing issues related to: the efficacy of audio assignments in first-year writing classrooms; how those assignments might be tailored to address specific course outcomes; how those assignments can be framed as highly rhetorical exercises; strategies for making the necessary resources available to students; possibilities for sharing/circulating/publishing audio assignments; and potential pitfalls for audio assignments in the writing classroom. And of course, we also spent some time at the end for Q&A.

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An Apology for Audio Assignments in First-Year Writing Classrooms

Harley Ferris & Ryan TraumanUniversity of Louisville

11 April 2013

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Have you, yourself, ever produced an audio text?

Why? Why not? How’d that go?

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Have you ever assigned an audio text in your class?

Why? Why not? How’d that go?

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Why an audio assignment?

Distribution.

Necessary.Consumption.

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Assignment Design Considerations

Context, Outcomes, Resources

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Context

How does the assignment fit into the rest of your course?

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Outcomes

How does the assignment fit into the rest of your course?

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Resources

How does the assignment fit into the rest of your course?

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Example Audio Assignment

• Three Stages:– Preparation– Production– Distribution

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Example Audio Assignment

• Production– Stock elements– Scripts– Recording– Editing

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Example Audio Assignment

• Preparation– Topic drawn from other

class work.– Genre awareness gleaned

from examples.– Discussions of audio

affordances.

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Example Audio Assignment

• Distribution– Soundcloud– Facebook– Twitter– Email

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Resources

www.newmediascholar.net

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Questions?

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Thanks.