{"id":123,"date":"2016-02-25T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:02:22","slug":"podcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/2016\/02\/25\/podcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Podcasting has become a fashionable way to present history online to public audiences. \u00a0Most notably, there is now <a href=\"http:\/\/backstoryradio.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Backstory<\/a>, a podcast series put together for National Public Radio by leading historians Edward Ayers, Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf. \u00a0The House Divided Project at Dickinson has also experimented with a <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/house-divided-project\" target=\"_blank\">podcast series<\/a> on Soundcloud featuring Prof. Todd Wronski, our &#8220;Voice of Lincoln.&#8221; \u00a0You can see what one Dickinson student (Leah Miller, Class of 2013) attempted with that series when she organized a close reading of a Lincoln document.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/102257293&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What Leah did was to edit different sound clips together using an open source tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audacity<\/a> and then posting them in the cloud-based service, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>. See if you can successfully create a short edited podcast that includes different sound files woven together seamlessly as Leah did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2010\/09\/03\/how-can-i-edit-the-audio-for-documentaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">an overview of sound-editing here<\/a> or view a video tutorial on Audacity below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZQ0FwB3sF0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To test out your capacity for sound-editing, you should consider combining one of Todd Wronski&#8217;s Lincoln podcasts with a quick overview from yourself. \u00a0You don&#8217;t need to conduct a full close reading of your own (unless you want to), but try to introduce and close the quote with your own voice before and after the snippet from Wronski.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdDRSdwQsZw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Podcasting has become a fashionable way to present history online to public audiences. \u00a0Most notably, there is now Backstory, a podcast series put together for National Public Radio by leading historians Edward Ayers, Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf. \u00a0The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/2016\/02\/25\/podcasting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}