iGeneration 08

Participatory Podcast Audio Assignment

(NB: to see an example of an uploaded podcast, click here.)

Please produce a five-minute audio project which explores ideas of participation and community in relation to the topics explored in the iGeneration unit. You are also required to write a 750-1000 word exegesis. Your exegesis should explain how your Podcast reflects on ideas of participation and community. What was the aim of your podcast? What worked and what challenges did you face? What (theoretical) ideas were you exploring and how successful was that exploration?

The audio assignment and exegesis should be posted to the unit blog before 4pm Thursday 11 September 2008. Your written exegesis must also be submitted in hardcopy to the English and Communication Studies office before 4pm Thursday 11 September. (Both versions must be submitted for your project to be marked.)

Resources Provided:
• You have access to a 40Gb iPod with an Extreme Micromemo microphone. (Micromemo instructions: www.xtrememac.com/support/manuals/docs/micromemo_video.pdf). → Can be collected from the Multimedia Centre Reception staff.
• You have access to Garageband in the Arts computer labs.

If you wish to work from home:
• Either use Garageband (Mac) or Audacity (Mac, PC, Linux).
• You may use any audio recording device to which you have ready access.
Downloads:
• Audacity: Download (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/); Useful Guides and Documentation (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/).
• Garageband: Podcasting Documentation (http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/podcasts/) also see the manuals in teh sidebar on that page.
• Music and Sound: Links to Creative Commons and other Legally Reusable Sources (http://tamaleaver.pbwiki.com/Sources+of+Legally+Reusable+Media).
• Micromemo: Instructions (www.xtrememac.com/support/manuals/docs/micromemo_video.pdf
• Release Forms (PDF).

In order to complete the assignment:
• All people interviewed (or documented by you), as well as your voice if it is heard, must sign a Release Form (these must be submited with the hard copy of your exegesis;
• Your podcast can be no more than 5 minutes in length;
• Your podcast must completely respect copyright (all sounds or music must be legally reusable either via Creative Commons licensed audio, the free samples and loops included with Garageband, or other rights-cleared sources);
• Your audio project must be in mp3 format and the file size should not exceed 5 megabytes.
• All sources (theoretical sources, media files, etc.) must be accurately referenced.
• Your audio file and exegesis should be posted to the unit blog in a single post, the title should begin ‘Podcast:’ and then the title of your podcast.

IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT THIS ASSIGNMENT

1. Your written work should be submitted to the ECS Office with a cover-sheet attached. Please do NOT submit written work directly to your tutor. (If you do, there may be no official record that the work was ever submitted.)

2. In order to satisfy unit requirements, students must submit essays by the due date. Unless an extension of the due date has been granted, late assignments will incur a penalty of 2 marks per working day. (Extension requests should be made in writing to your tutor, and will normally require a medical certificate.) No work will be accepted after the end of the examination period (without a formal deferral from the Academic Student Advisor).

3. It is essential to KEEP A COPY of your work. In the case of loss of an essay, notes or an earlier draft cannot be accepted as substitutes.

4. Please do NOT write on both sides of the paper.

5. Whether your work is typed or hand-written, it should be DOUBLE-SPACED. (For handwritten essays, this means that you write on every second line.)

6. Please leave a WIDE MARGIN in case the marker needs to offer comments and annotations.

7. PLAGIARISM Please be aware that the essay you submit must be your own work with no unacknowledged debt to some other writer or source. To pass off written work as your own, whether you have copied it from someone else or from somewhere else (be it a published writer, another person, a TV program, a library anthology, or whatever) is to deprive yourself of the real benefits of this unit and to be guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious offence! University policy is that plagiarism, the unacknowledged quotation of material from other people’s work, is a ground for failure. Substantial plagiarism means a mark of 0% for the assignment concerned. It is your responsibility to read the Faculty policy on plagiarism:
http://www.faculty.arts.uwa.edu.au/enrolled_students/policies/plagiarism

If you take notes from other sources (critical articles, background works, etc) you must quote carefully and accurately, and acknowledge the quotation. Even if you paraphrase, you must still acknowledge that you are paraphrasing. This is very important!

The Projects:

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