Exhibits, Podcasts, and Installations: Multimodal Full-Class Projects for Continuing Communication

David Morgen

Emory Writing Program

Thanks!

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 12:30-1:30pm

Jones Room, Woodruff Library

 

Develop Continuing

Communication courses that engage your whole class in collaborative multimodal creation!

Why a Podcast Series Project?

  • A "real" genre that exists in the world, which they are mostly familiar with
  • Avoid writing to a prompt
  • Student ownership
  • Spreadability

Students respond

  • Encourage investment & innovation
  • Awareness of audience
  • Collaborative
  • Encourage investment & innovation

Introduction

I lay out basic goals -- there will be a podcast, published to the web & iTunes, about the course subject.

1.

Ideation

Students decide title of series, structure, "rules" for the series. Students design a logo and draft, then record intro bumper. Choose music.

2.

Launch

Students work in groups of 3, decide on their specific episode structure -- in conversation with me -- then they record and I publish episodes.

3.

Roles

Explain required elements. Consult with the individuals responsible for any given episode to provide guidance & to ensure that each episode maintains the standards of the whole. Provide feedback on the production.

Executive Producer (Instructor)

Initiates, coordinates, supervises, and controls all aspects of the podcast episode production process, including creative, technological, and administrative. Involved throughout all phases of production. Coordination, supervision, and control of all other talents and crafts, and publication and promotion of the completed episode.

Not involved until recording. Helps with final steps of the process. Stands in for the audience, checks audio is good during recording, sounding board for producers.

Helps the Producer to create a finished episode, from the beginning with initial idea for the episode and helps to bring the Producer’s ideas to fruition, including providing assistance with research, storyboarding, recording, and editing.

Producer

Asst. Producer

Line Producer

An example podcast:

The Longest Rainy Sunday

Time has stopped, everything is uncertain, we’re physically distanced and socially disconnected as a pandemic and fights for justice rage around us. The world might be forever changed after the events of 2020 but where does that leave us in the meantime? It’s felt to a lot of us like one almost unending rainy afternoon staring at video screens, either to escape, to connect, or to imagine a better way forward.

So in this series, we’ll turn our critical gaze to the games we have been playing, examine what they have to offer right now. How do these games define identities, foster a sense of belonging, encourage empathy, or subvert systems? How do they encourage certain types of problem solving and learning? What sorts of values do they promote?

The world hit pause, lets hit play.

Fall 2020

ENG 101

Time to Settle This with Catan

The very first podcast episode

my students produced

Grand Theft Auto V and Transit

  • Rohan & Zach
  • "GTA Yourself" song
  • International student who had only experienced USA in GTA V before starting at Emory
  • Interviewed friend Corey, from CA

Main North Wall, Manuel's Tavern

"Digital Dig Unpacks Atlanta

Dive Bar Rich in History" NYT 11/9/2015

Unpacking Manuel's