New Curriculum Podcast Library
My co-collaborators and I have nearly completed our first year teaching in the New College Curriculum and have reflected on how to augment next year's classes by incorporating digital media materials. We will create audio and video files of certain kinds of course content, including mini-audio-book-style files of selected course readings to accompany texts. Hearing textual material spoken can help the meanings and significance of words, phrases and punctuation leap out in ways that don't always happen when read silently.
This is a podcast library for College Fellow faculty that will help the New Curriculum thrive. We plan to invite College Fellows to submit scripts for a 'beautiful questions' series and a 'how-to' series. We will record and edit them and make them available via Media Gallery or other streaming service.
This is a podcast library for College Fellow faculty that will help the New Curriculum thrive. We plan to invite College Fellows to submit scripts for a 'beautiful questions' series and a 'how-to' series. We will record and edit them and make them available via Media Gallery or other streaming service.
Second and Third Years of Funding
Our goals for our additional years of funding are these:
- Create a series of 20 'micro-casts' to add to the existing College Fellows Audio Library. Micro-casts are podcasts that are limited to 500 words. Each micro-cast will define and explain using accessible and compelling language a single keyword/key-phrase/key concept first-year students are likely to encounter in their first university courses, but that professors rarely spend the time to explain. Example words might include affect, data, discourse, embodiment, ethics, genome. 2.
- Add two longer-form podcasts to the library, one in Difference and one in the Empirical or Ethics engagements, domains underrepresented in our current offerings.
- Translate the current website to a Drupal for integration into UVA’s web ecosystem and incorporate official branding with A&S and UVA logos.