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By 11:59 pm on Wednesday, November 21
Post your audio production (hosted on Soundcloud) to the course blog. Write an updated statement of at least 300 words about how this approach to storytelling might be used to make an historical argument. Be as precise and specific as you can, but also be imaginative about the directions you can go. Refer back to the comments we’ve left on your posts for class Monday, and to the discussion we had in class.
By 11:59 pm on Friday, November 23
Leave a substantive comment on the post of one of your classmates. This comment should ask a question or in some other way build upon the work of the original poster.
By 5:50 pm on Monday, November 26
The evolving possibilities of public history.
Read:
- Oscar Rosales Castañeda, “Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, 2012.
- Amanda Grace Sikarskie, “Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co-Creation of Knowledge,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, 2012.
- Share with the class your updated inventory of assets and primary sources.
- Articulate, even in draft form, what your historical argument is.
We are three weeks away from when your final project is due. If we do not feel that you are making sufficient progress, we will require a more formal post prior to Wednesday’s class.
Audio project proposals
- Workshop selected posts
- Clarify instructions for production
Public History – Reading
Anne Trubek, “A City’s History, Made Mobile,” Yahoo News, June 6, 2012.
- What is public history?
- what are some of the tensions between public history and “academic history”?
- Cleveland Historical – mobile app
- Developed by the Center for Public History and the Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University
- Geo-located entries, GPS automatically locates text, photos, and videos
- Uses Omeka (4 minute “What is Omeka” video), Curatescape
- Community storytelling
- Wide collaboration across individuals, community organizations, educational institutions, etc.
- Review current state of project on Cleveland Historical website
- Related examples
Blogs@Baruch Q&A
Assignments
I will be doing the Hear it Here theme using homophones to retell a story.
I am going to be using my laptop with a built in microphone and work with the standard Microsoft recording to prepare my story.
Similar to using political rhetoric I will attempt to retell a story related to current events through double-speak and fun wordplay.
I’m going to try to tackle the Imitate some weather audio assignment. In this task, by using only my voice and things around the house, I’m going to imitate some kind of weather.
Tin pans, my shutters, and me going SSSOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH should make this project really challenging but fun! I have a Macbook and the Garage Band application that I’ve used for audio files before, so hopefully I can do this project without much headaches.
For this assignment I am going to attempt the One Question assignment. I am going to record video on my phone, and edit them on my computer with Final Cut Pro. However with time constraints I’m not sure if I will be able to generate a quality enough video to accomplish the task in a way I see fit. As a backup plan I’m going to also attempt the interview/music assignment. For this I will transfer mp3 files to audacity, and record questions through the microphone input on my computer.
When asking such a broad question, the one question assignment can prove successful in framing someone’s insight and mindset at the time and place the video was taken. The openness of the question leaves the responder of the question with free reign to speak of anything that they see as a fit answer. In retrospect these videos could capture the most honest thoughts from these people at that specific time.
The audio assignment I will be choosing is the “May I Take Your Order” assignment. This will require me to use an accent and pretend that I am ordering from a McDonalds. I will use a recording device, probably from my iPhone to produce my assignment. The historical argument that I will attempt to create is to show how global a company like McDonalds is and how there are so many different types of people eating at McDonalds.
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