Digital Storytelling Overview

The Back Story

• What is Digital Storytelling?
• Podcasting is a form of digital storytelling. What makes it unique?
• Podcasting at Evergreen: Lara Evans

Recording audio

• Recording and mic options available from Media Loan
• Best practices for recording in the field/in the studio
  • Oral history recording instructions

Editing audio

Intro to [[Category:Audacity| Audacity]

• Audacity Tutorial
• Activity: editing out trouble spots in a short recording
• Using normalization to optimize your audio for the web

Putting it all together

• The various podcast/digital story flavors
• Using Garage Band to assemble/package up your podcast
• Publishing your podcast with WordPress
• Getting your podcast heard using the iTunes podcast directory

Closing

Please let us know how well this institute worked for you by completing a short evaluation for Podcasting. Thanks!