Week 5: Digital Audiences: Podcasting and History Blogging – February 5

Readings:
William Cronon, “The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age,” Perspectives on History, January 1, 2012, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2012/the-public-practice-of-history-in-and-for-a-digital-age
Tina Adcock, Keith Grant, Stacy Nation-Knapper, Beth Robertson and Corey Slumkoski, “Canadian History Blogging: Reflections at the Intersection of Digital Storytelling, Academic Research, and Public Outreach,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 27, 2 (July, 20217), https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/2016-v27-n2-jcha03136/1040560ar/.
Listen to a recent podcast episode of Nature’s Past or Ben Franklin’s World.
Read three ActiveHistory.ca articles.

Lab: Recording and editing audio with Audacity.
Raw recording of Erika Dyck’s 2014 Public Lecture

• Can you cut out the introduction?
• Can you make the recording end when Prof. Dyck’s talk ends?
• What can you do to improve the audio quality?
• Can you cut it together with another audio file? (maybe find a creative commons song for an introduction)