remixing history in san bernardino
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Presentation from workshops @ San BernardinoTRANSCRIPT
“O”
Medium
Medium: a means of effectively conveying something.
--Merriam Webster Dictionary
“O”
“O”Sad
“O”Angry
“O”Surprised
“O”You stubbed your toe
“O”You remembered something
important
“O”You just won a game
Context: The situation or conditions in which something exists or occurs which can affect its meaning.
She wanted to fight for her country.
She wanted to fight for her country.
She wanted to fight for her country.
She wanted to fight for her country.
Technology
Context
Medium
She wanted to fight for her country.
What we did…
• Imported an existing audio file and made it a track.
• Recorded an original audio track.• Shifted tracks.• Manipulated tracks.Made a few mistakes and easily fixed them.• Identified a good source for existing audio,
Megetrax.com.• Explored the connection among medium,
context, technology and meaning.
DIY Media
DIY Ethos: Allows ordinary people to pursue what had hitherto been professional tasks. It’s the empowerment of non-specialists…from home improvement to media production.
(Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)
DIY Media
1970 2011
DIY Media and Student-Centered
Learning
Bringing Primary Sources to Life
Original Recording
February 12, 1850
To J. C. Fairchild and Family,
I think we are in the poorest diggings in the country and we have made as much this winter as any store in Madison can make in a year. About four weeks ago the river rose very high and drove us on the highest part of the bar where we supposed there was no gold of any consequence, but to our surprise we found it the richest part so we all took our ground and went to work, since that it has not rained and we have all done well. Ed & I have taken out over Twelve hundred dollars or over 2 ounces a day which is good wages…
I remain Your affectionate Friend, Son, & Brother, Lucius Fairchild
Narrator 1: February 12, 1850
Narrator 2: To J. C. Fairchild and Family,
Narrator 3: I think we are in the poorest diggings in the country and we have made as much this winter as any store in Madison can make in a year.
Narrator 1: About four weeks ago the river rose very high and drove us on the highest part of the bar where we supposed there was no gold of any consequence,
Narrator 2: but to our surprise we found it the richest part so we all took our ground and went to work,
Narrator 3: since that it has not rained and we have all done well. Ed & I have taken out over Twelve hundred dollars or over 2 ounces a day which is good wages…
ALL: I remain Your affectionate Friend, Son, & Brother, Lucius Fairchild
From California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900. The California Letters of Lucius Fairchild. Library of Congress’s American Memories Project retrieved January 4, 2006 from http://memory.loc.gov/Pg. 23, Student Powered Podcasting
Script Version
Foley ArtHere are some examples of other Foley techniques:
*Army Marching: Boots on wood, repeated and looped*Shovels: Spoons in sand or pebbles*pick ax: Pipes or metal spoonsApplause: 2-3 People clapping, repeated and looped*Knocking on door: Knocking on desk or wood*Time bomb Ticking: Clock*Airplane Engine: Fan starting and running*Helicopter: Opening and closing an umbrella very fast*Bones breaking: cracking celery or carrots*Knight moving in armor: A set of keys moving*Walking in snow: patting corn starch*Dinosaur, monster, or large animal eating: Chewing Watermelon*Elevator door closing: closing a desk draw or filing cabinet*Boiling Water: Blowing bubbles with straw*Horses: paper coffee cups on table
Short video on Foley Art
http://youtu.be/UNvKhe2npMM
Garageband or Audacity or any other audio editing program
Audacity Download is herehttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Garageband or Audacity for Mac
Audacity, any version, 1.2.6 is the ‘classic’
Audacity for Mac is herehttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac
GarageBand is on your Mac
They all look something like this…
Track 1
Track 2
5 10 15 20 25 30
Generic video of audio editing
Start your program, get ready to record your voice.
• Audacity (open and record)
GarageBand (choose create new Podcast Episode and recrod)
Narration
Add Music
Audacity p. 23GarageBand p. 33
Project: Dramatizing Primary Sources
Pick a Source • “Gold Rush” and follow along the step by step in the book• “Paul Revere” and improvise from the book instructions (handout)
Record Narration• One person read• Create script with multiple readers
Add Sound Effects• Use one from the ‘pack’• Search, download and import a new one on soungle.com • Make
Add Music• Choose and use one from the “pack”• Explore and download from megatrax.com
http://is.gd/sanbmedia All Media Here
Go to it…
• Record original sounds• Import existing audio• Manipulate Tracks• Shift tracks
p. 29 for GarageBandp. 20 for AudacityOr…Learn it via Trial and Error
Megatrax.com
http://memory.loc.gov/
Soungle.com
Resources for Extensions
• http://www.megatrax.com Source of music for projects.
• http://memory.loc.gov Resource for primary sources in American history.
• http://soungle.com Source for sound
effects.• http://audacity.sourceforge.net
• http://is.gd/sanbmedia
Other History Audio Projects
Remixing Primary Sources Page 93http://podcourse.blogspot.com/primary-source.htm
Audio Tour Page 115http://podcourse.blogspot.com/2008/11/audio-tour.html
Youth Radio Page 115www.youthradio.org/environmental/061205_air.shtml
Historical Interview page 115
http://podcourse.blogspot.com/2008/04/historic-interview.html
Remix to Research
Remix: to take cultural artifacts and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends
Some Examples of Contemporary Remix Practices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE
http://www.archive.org/details/DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEH6wZXPA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVVM7cJR40&list=PLAF5FE856762CBA8C&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=2T5_0AGdFic
Remix as a Lens
Remix to ResearchDigital
Documentaries
Create a Persuasive Video / Send a Video to your Representative
13 Colonies
Persuasive Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idh5-P2fmQM
Was the United States Justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan during WWII?
Should the Confederate Flag be banned?
Does the constitution support the right for individuals to keep and carry firearms?
Organizer for Digital Storytelling Projects
Assessment Rubric
13 ColoniesIt is 1740. You become a recruiting agent hired by one of the colonies to attract new immigrants. Your task is to educate and persuade settlers to come to your colony. You will be able to do this by making a TV commercial. Your commercial must reflect the attributes of the assigned colony. You must address the issues of natural resources, economy, religion, relations with Indians, and reasons for settling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLH0vh4Ea5o&feature=colike
13 Colonies• New Jersey has been relatively free from Indian wars
• New Jersey, as the other Middle colonists, were a mixture of religions, including Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jewish, and others.
• East Jersey and West Jersey, until they were united as a royal colony in 1702.
• Since 1664 the area was guaranteeing religious freedom
• New Jersey is one of the most successful farming areas on the continent
• • New Jersey is about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide
• New Jersey grows wheat, barley, oats, rye, and corn. The Middle Colonies were often
• Wheat could be ground to make flour, and both wheat and flour could be sold in other colonies or in Europe
• New Jersey was more ethnically diverse than many other colonies.
• New Jersey has all four seasons, heat in summer, snow in winter, turning leaves in fall, and new growth in spring.
http://is.gd/colonialimages
Digital Storytelling TechnologyHandouts
PC: PhotoStory Mac: GarageBand of iMovie
http://is.gd/colonialimages
Some Legal and Ethical Notes on Getting Existing Media: Fair
Use
Four Factors
•Nature of the use•Amount and character of the material•Amount•Effect on the market
Cost of Copyright Confusionhttp://youtu.be/fAhWMU1TdvE
Derivative or Transformational
Some Technical Notes
• Some Technical Notes on Getting Video
Working with Video: Trailers
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD41EDDA0908BB486
Brainstorming Trailer: Dred Scott, the Movie
Dred Scott was a slave who appealed to the Supreme Court in 1856 to be freed. Scott’s case was based on the fact that he had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal. The court ruled that Scott could not be free. The Supreme Court ruled that all blacks, slaves as well as free could never become citizens of the United State. The case and decision brought the plight of slaves to greater national attention and fueled abolitionists.
Trailer Elements• Compelling Title
• Images, Video, Titles
• First Line Hook
• Narrator Description
Alternating with
• Quotes/Scenes from the Movie (we will use primary sources
Other Elements
• Parts of reviews, cast, director, etc…• The ‘Preview has been Approved’ message • Film Company Logo
4-5 lines about the story. Lines the narrator will say
• He was a man yearning for freedom and his family
• In a world consumed by slavery
• He took his case to the highest court in the land
• But some battles need to be lost, so the war can be won.
http://youtu.be/7QPMvj_xejg
Write 4-5 lines from primary sourcesLines people said or wrote during the time that
the ‘characters’ say.“The Legislation of the Republic is in the hands of this handful of Slaveholders!”
“The conspiracy is nearly completed.”
“The American Congress has no power to prevent the enslavement of men?”
“Compact yourselves together for the struggle which threatens your liberty and will test your manhood!”
" want freedom from myself and my family! “ (hypothetical)
Primary Source from The Evening Journal of Albany, New York, March 9, 1857•http://history.furman.edu/benson/docs/nyajds57309a.htm
BONUS: Add Original Media
Create original images or videos based on one of the lines in the primary source. Act it, pose for it, capture it, record it, and include it. For example, imagine you are a 19 Century abolitionist and record yourself saying “The Legislation of the Republic is in the hands of this handful of Slaveholders.”
EXTRA BONUS: Add movie trailerish lines like…
“Starring Denzel Washington as Dred Scott”
“Directed by Stephen Spielberg “
“One man’s fight for freedom helped change the course of history.”
Make a Trailer for a MovieTopics:
• Dred Scott• Whiskey Rebellion• 1776, 1876 or any particular year.• Amistad Uprising • War of 1812• The Expedition of Lewis and Clark• etc…
• For Dred Scott, look here for some starter mediahttp://is.gd/trailermedia
Shift
•Growing focus over last 40 years from Reading to 21st Century Literacy
Reading:•Internal •Cognitive
Literacy: •Combination of skills•Related to society and economy
New Literacies:•Combination of cognitive, social, technical skills tied to society and globalization
Participatory Culture
Jenkins Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGBfuyN5gg
1,500,000 Hours of Programming
On Major TV networks from 1948-2008
On Major TV networks from 1948-2008
On YouTube from July–December 2008
1,500,000 Hours of Programming
With great power, comes great responsibility
UDL
An Overview ofUniversal Design for
Learning (UDL)
UDL in Plain Language
Think of a teacher who communicates clearly, sparks student interest, and cares about every student in his or her classroom.
Give that teacher the tools and encouragement to do all of these things better and then make this a systematic model for a school.
This is UDL
Why We Need UDL: A Student's Perspective
View the video at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsRirR17oU
UDL is…A set of research-based guidelines for curriculum development. Guidelines that focus on:
Multiple means of representation—what is learned
Multiple means of expression—how it’s learned
Multiple means of engagement --why it’s learned
--Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education Letter to Congress Introducing
the National Educational Technology Plan
http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010/letter-secretary
“The model of learning described in this plan calls for engaging and empowering personalized learning experiences for learners of all ages...It calls for using state-of-the-art technology and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) concepts to enable, motivate, and inspire all students to achieve, regardless of background, languages, or disabilities.”
A National Imperative: National Educational Technology Plan
NOTE: The difference between UDL and differentiation
UDL works on curriculum from the ground up. It's bigger, better, and more ambitious.
Differentiation makes adaptations to the existing curriculum, without demanding the curriculum changes for all students.
More Information: UDLcenter.org
San Bernardino CountyRemixing History
DAY 2
Chris Shamburg
November 2011
Three men were killed and thrown across me.
Remixing the Gettysburg Address
Remixing Primary Sources: The Gettysburg AddressThis project uses remix principles synthesize, compare and
contrast historical perspectives. It works when you look at primary sources as three types:
Mainstream: popular speeches, laws, documentsPeople: diaries, journals, lettersPopular: songs, advertisements, plays, books
The rewarding part is to take one from at least two of the categories and mix them into one work.
Manley Stacey Letter (Letter from Gettysburg Soldier)Reading of the Gettysburg Address (mp3)
All media for todayIs.gd/sanbmedia
Download Audacityhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net
Remixing History as an Educational Activity
• DIY Media
• Participatory Culture
• Remix
Remix…
to take cultural artifacts and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends
Steal?
Borrow?
Modify?
Improve?
Inspire?
Transform?
Some Examples of Contemporary Remix Practices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE
http://www.archive.org/details/
DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEH6wZXPA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVVM7cJR40&list=PLAF5FE856762CBA8C&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=2T5_0AGdFic
Food
Remix as a Lens
Daniel Pink and Thomas Friedman on Globalization and Education
Friedman: The assignment can be: “Mash these two together.”
Pink: And these kids get mash-ups
Friedman: Oh, they get mash-ups. They do it naturally. And today, he who mashes best will mash most and be wealthiest.
From School Administrator February 2008
Remix and Mashups
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=215454646984933465708.00049c59184ae1136341a
Remixing Primary Sources Page 93http://podcourse.blogspot.com/primary-source.htm
Remix the Battle of Gettysburg
• Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
• Letter from Manley Stacey, Corporal in the Union Army written during the battle of Gettysburg
Remixing History as an Educational Activity
Remixing Primary Sources
Mainstream History (laws, documents, speeches)Personal History (journals, letters, memoirs)Popular Culture (songs, advertisements, TV shows, plays)
Remixing Gettysburg
• Import Sam Waterston’s Gettysburg Address Reading.• Add music.• Record section of Manley Stacey’s Letter.
• Adjust the Volume.
Primary Source: Videolatenightcabdriving (Photographer). (2011). A picture I took yesterday in Tahrir Square, Cairo,
at 11 PM. [Photograph], Retrieved February 18, 2011, from: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/f9a2m/a_picture_i_took_yesterday_in_tahrir_square_cairo/
latenightcabdriving (Photographer). (2011). Untitled [Photograph], Retrieved February 18, 2011, from: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/f9a2m/a_picture_i_took_yesterday_in_tahrir_square_cairo/c1e96ac
TV-Novosti (Producer). (2011, February 1). Sea of People: Over 250,000 in Cairo chant 'Mubarak, Leave!' [Video], Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT8_wrsrNp8
X, Malcolm (Speaker), King Daevid MacKenzie (Producer). (2006). Echoes of a Century: Malcolm X on "The Ballot or The Bullet" [Audio], Retrieved from: http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/9862
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5BiqNKdfM
Amendment ICongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Mix video and images from http://is.gd/firstam
Add Narration of First Amendment
Connecting Past and Present
www.megatrax.comUsername:sbcsshistoryPassword:sbcsshistory
Click ‘sign in’
Some Legal and Ethical Notes on Getting Existing Media: Fair
Use
Four Factors
•Nature of the use•Amount and character of the material•Amount•Effect on the market
Cost of Copyright Confusionhttp://youtu.be/fAhWMU1TdvE
Derivative or Transformational
Some Technical Notes
• Some Technical Notes on Getting Video
Machinima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTFgOIhdzs
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/health&id=6560904
Machinima and Presentism: Dialoguing with the Past
The Conversation
President Obama: 0-10
George Washington: 11-22
President Obama: 22-37
George Washington: 37-52
Some Further IdeasRO to RW (Lessig, 2008)
Spectatory Culture to Participatory Culture (Jenkins, 2008)
Inside Guttenberg Parenthesis to Outside Guttenberg Parenthesis (Pettitt, 2007)
New Literacies (Knobel and Lankshear, 2008, 2010)
See the Remix Bibliography
Culture and Social Implications
Jenkins Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGBfuyN5gg
Photoshopping
• http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/business_practices/ethics.html
Presidential Primaries, 2004.John Kerry June 1971.
Jane Fonda1972.
Adnan Hajj’s image of Israeli bombing of Beirut, 2006, Reuters News Service
Women removed from Israeli Cabinet for Conservative
newspaper Yated Neeman
TV Guide put Oprah’s head on Ann Margret’s body.
Ralph Lauren Apologized for this extreme touchup in 2009
Iranian Missile Testing, 2008
Research 2007 / Tienamin Square, 1989. A study, published in the
journal Applied Cognitive Psychology,.
The Leader
Britian at War Exhibit, London, 2010
Time Magazine, March 2007, tear added
The Kentucky state Republican Party distributed campaign flyers that depict Steve Beshear, the Democratic nominee for Governor, as high-roller leaning on a casino table.
French Prime Minister in French Magazine Paris Match, August
2007, had some virtual liposuction
Famous portrait of President Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the southern Senator John Calhoun’s body
General Ulysses S. Grant in front of his troops at City Point, Virginia. Library of Congress
Researchers discovered it was a composite.
Senator Millard Tydings’ a critic of Joseph McCarthy lost his reelection after this doctored photo of him with the
leader of the American Communist Party was published.
Unfriending
Stalin, 1930
Mao Tse-tung, 1936
Hitler, 1937
Justice Minister Rachida Dati in the French newspaper Le Figaro in
June, 2008
Obama v BP, 2010
Standards for Journalists
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