In these recording and editing audio tutorials, instructors have a choice as to what specific software they would like to learn, depending on the operating system their computers utilize: Audacity or Garageband. These sessions focus on planning, producing, editing, and publishing a short podcast. (This is typically a two-day sequence)
Before starting: bring a pair of headphones to our workshop(s), and listen to the first five minutes of the following podcast episodes
- 99% Invisible, “The Dollhouses of St. Louis” or “Flying Food”
- Lore, “All Fall Down”
- This Week in Google, “The Mortician’s Wife”
- The Sporkful, “Levar Burton’s Stolen Steaks”
Materials for Creating Podcasts with Audacity and Garageband
Examples to Use with Students
Music Search Engines (Creative Commons-approved)
Audacity Tutorials
- Audacity Team Manual and Tutorials
- Audacity Tutorial (specifically for Mac)
- Basic Recording and Editing
- Audacity Basics Tutorial (with Envelope tool!)
Assigning, Teaching, and Assessing Video Projects
In this workshop, we will focus on getting familiar with different ways to approach video editing as a composing activity in our writing classrooms. While we will predominantly be focusing on how to actually design video assignments and looking at examples, we also discuss best practices for filming and gathering source materials, as well as the rhetorical use of video editing. Students (and instructors) can check out equipment like cameras and tripods from Hicks; here’s the list and hours!
Before starting: bring headphones to the workshop
Materials for Assigning, Teaching, and Assessing Video Projects
Below are some student-made videos of varying production qualities. They are all PSAs, but they can be useful for talking to your students about the relationship between the visual, aural, and textual elements of the video.
Video Production Programs: Adobe Premiere, iMovie, and Windows Movie Maker
In this series of workshops, teachers will be taken through the basics of Adobe Premiere. Though Premiere is an industry-standard program, with a lot of options, it is more universally accessible on Purdue computers than Movie Maker or iMovie. (There are tutorials for both of these programs in this workshop, as well, but in our sessions, we will focus on Premiere.) While this tutorial is procedure-heavy and takes instructors through the “how-to” of the software, we also discuss connections to course content.
Before starting: bring headphones to our workshop
Materials for Video Production Programs: Adobe Premiere, iMovie, and Windows Movie Maker
Web-based Video-Editing Services
Stock Video and B-Roll Sources (Creative Commons-approved)
Music Search Engines (Creative Commons-approved)