[[NOTE: Please see comments section for follow-up questions by Dr. McDaniel.]]
OBJECTIVES
Our mission is to make audio files about the statue, Houston’s Market Square, St. Vicent’s Cemetery, Sam Houston Park, and Emancipation Park that will serve as walking/driving tour guides. Our goal is to inform listeners about contests between different groups over Dowling’s memory and the facts of his life and the battle of Sabine Pass, as well as collaboration between different groups. The narratives of the podcasts would highlight how those differences have shaped changes to the sites over time. At one of the sites, we also want to provide additional context to the battle of Sabine Pass, including neglected dimensions like the relationship of the battle to the history of slavery in the Civil War.
DIVISION OF LABOR
We will each be responsible for writing two podcasts, and for recording at least one of the podcasts that we write. When we write the podcasts, we will consult items from the Library Assignments and the HPL archive. Time permitting, we will also try to find or suggest music, sound or audio clips for each of the podcasts, and edit the recordings to include these effects.
TOOLS USED
(List any online services or software tools you will use, and provide specific information about the accounts that created them and/or where resources you are generating as a group will be located.)
– We will use Google Docs to draft and comment on the scripts for the podcasts. All Docs will be shared with each group member and Dr. McDaniel.
– GarageBand
– Recording materials from DMC
SCHEDULE
4/8: Complete working draft of contract
Week of 4/10: Each person will work on script for first podcast.
4/15: Each person will complete script for first podcast. Over the weekend, we will review the drafts on Google Docs, make suggestions, and decide, based on the experiences writing the podcasts, if the rest of the things we outlined in our objectives and mission statement are possible.
4/18: Make any necessary adjustments to finalize contract, share with Dr. McDaniel for approval.
(At this point, we will outline how much more time we will have to edit the first script, record, and any other things we’d like to do with the podcast. All tasks will be completed by May 4th.)
Where will you be storing the files you create in GarageBand? How will you back up the files to make sure you don’t lose your work?
I guess we could put them in a dropbox? Or burn them onto a CD or something and give a copy to you?
Either way would be fine, just wanted to make sure you’ve thought about it. If you store them in a dropbox, all of you will be able to access them from any computer as you are working on them, and won’t have to pass a CD around. Rice has its own dropbox service for sending large files to people, but it’s not like Dropbox where a folder is automatically synced.