July 20: Working with Sound and other Non-Textual Sources

Instructors: Sheila Brennan, Sharon Leon, and Resident Instructor Michael O’Malley

Readings

Aske The Floppykat. Quick Beat Made on the SP 1200, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJWESw3vSY.
Bergen, Sadie. “History on the Download: Podcasting the Past.” Perspectives on History, February 2016. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2016/history-on-the-download-podcasting-the-past.
Graham, S, S Eve, and A Pantos. “Hearing the Past.” Electric Archaeology, January 5, 2015. https://electricarchaeology.ca/2015/01/05/hearing-the-past/.
Hardy III, Charles, and Alessandro Portelli. “I Can Almost See the Lights of Home – A Field Trip to Harlan County, Kentucky.” Journal for MultiMedia History 2 (1999). http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/lights.html.
“Loudness War.” Wikipedia, May 6, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loudness_war&oldid=718874923.
Sterne, Jonathan. “The mp3 as a Cultural Artifact.” New Media and Society 8, no. 5 (2006): 825–42. http://sterneworks.org/mp3.pdf
Listen to one episode from a history podcast of your choice: http://mentalfloss.com/article/64415/pod-city-19-history-podcasts-delight-your-brain

Discuss the Readings
Introduction to collections of sound, sound-based digital projects
- http://history2016.doingdh.org/week-2-wednesday/multi-media-sites-and-sources/
Digital Methods: working with sound and media
Break
Hands-on Session: Preparing sound/video files for sharing
Hands-on Session: Use Audacity to work with sound

Digital Methods: Building arguments with sound and video.
Hands-on Session: SoundCiteJS
- http://history2016.doingdh.org/soundcite-tutorial/
Hands-on Session: Making a podcast
Break
Hands-on Session: Using OHMS to tag oral histories
- Group 1: Larry, Kerry, Bethany, Aaron- Marion McPartland
  Group 2: Marybeth, Joe, Sarah, Paul – Scott Carpenter
  Group 3: Judy R. Alvis, Alan, Anne – Doc Cheatham
  Group 4: Kristen, Michael, Liz, Ely – Jimmy Heath
  Group 5: Tammy, Jess, Tom, Judy G. – Raoul Cunningham
  Group 6: Robin, Johann, Steve, Jonathan – Oliva Ripy

Write a short blog post about how you might use sound or video in your class or digital project.