Monthly Archives: March 2016

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Dickinson College is not in the MOOC (massive open online course) business, but we have been experimenting with online learning.  Each summer since 2012, the House Divided Project at Dickinson has been partnering with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American … Continue reading →

For the purposes of this week’s lab, I chose to “podcast” a close reading of Abraham Lincoln’s August 22, 1862 letter. Podcasts are audio recordings (sometimes with a video recording counterpart) that both experts and enthusiasts use to circulate discussions … Continue reading →

I used the open source audio editing utility Audacity to create a short podcast that I then uploaded to the public music and audio community Soundcloud. I combined and edited Prof. Todd Wronski’s reading of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address with an open … Continue reading →