Episode 3:  Rethinking the Old in New Ways—Invention

In this episode, I address how podcasting may be used in classrooms to help students rethink the “old” writing concepts we have been teaching. I start with invention in this episode and cover the other four canons in the next two episodes.

• Podcast File (.mp3 length 12:11 minutes. This is saved as a rich MP3 with album art and lyrics. Please download and listen to with an MP3 program, like iTunes, for the fullest experience.)
• Transcript (.pdf)

Student Podcast Clips:

• Jones, Brett. (2008). A Progymnasmodcast, for ENGL 4320:005:FA08, posted 12/1/08 on iTunes University.

Links

LibriVox: free public-domain text recorded by volunteers http://librivox.org/

References

Lemke, Jay L. (2004). Metamedia literacy: Transforming meanings and media. In Carolyn Handa (Ed.), Visual rhetoric in a digital world: A critical sourcebook (pp. 71-93). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Shankar, Tara Rosenberger. (2006). Speaking on the record: A theory of composition. Computers and Composition 23(3) [Special issue: Sound in/as compositional space], 374–393.

Warnick, Barbara. (2005). Looking to the future: Electronic texts and the deepening interface. Technical Communication Quarterly 14(3), 327–333.