Chris Shamburg

Teaching Material

Below are documents and media that might be helpful to other teachers.

Here’s some media from Podcourse and other podcasting projects.
Help! My Microphone Isn’t Working–This is a short video to troubleshoot common problems when beginning audio recording and editing on your computer.

Turning an MP3 into a Bona Fide Podcast–Here’s a short presentation for using free tools to make your mp3 into a podcast. It’s just one way to do it…please take the liberty to adapt this method to your needs.

Saving as an MP3 in Audacity–This is a short video explaining the differences between the Audacity aup file and the mp3–a common confusion when first using Audacity.

Editing Seedwiki–I use Seedwiki for my Fair Use in Education Wiki Project. The purpose of the wiki is to share scenarios for the educational applications of fair use and of copyleft materials. This video is a short introduction to editing the site.

Here is a link to the Audacity Tutorial 2008. It’s a hands-on activity that gives step-by-step instructions for the major features of multitrack audio editing with Audacity 1.2.6.

Here’s a video I made to Introduce Microsoft’s PhotoStory.

One unit in my new Book on Podcasting will be called “Readers Theater–The Sequel”. Students will use scripts and sound effects to create audio plays in the spirit or Readers Theater. Below is an example from one student in Podcourse.
Grimm Story

Below is an example of the Primary Source Project. Here two primary sources were mixed–a reading of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech from 1939 and a recording from a radio broadcast of Gehrig at bat in the 1936 World Series.

Primary Source–Baseball and Lou Gehrig

Here’s an example of the Poetry Walk Remix: Nature (the City Remix is here)

Poetry Walk Remix Nature