Episode 10: Exploring the Past

So I made a thing. An audio thing. An audio thing that I wanted to make and loved making, all about history and spaces and the line between being creepy or not creepy--but I was worried that it didn't have much to do with pedagogy. And this is a show about pedagogy.

So I did what any sensible person would do: I emailed my audio thing to scholars Jody Shipka and Jen Michaels and asked them to record responses--particularly responses that suggested ways to connect my piece to the classroom.

What kinds of relationships do we have to the places we inhabit? And what do those relationships have to do with our teaching?
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Episode 10: Exploring the Past

Transcript available here as a Google Doc full of links. If you see edits I should make or links I should add, go ahead and leave a comment.

Part 1: Researching My House

I'm obsessed with my 99-year-old house. So I made a 27-minute audio piece exploring my relationship to it. That's it.

Music you hear in this segment, all estimated to be from 1916 (the year the house was built):

William Thomas, “Rose of No Man’s Land”
Bresnen, “You’re a Dangerous Girl”
Don Richardson, “Arkansas Traveler”
Imperial Quartet of Chicago, “Perfect Day"
Paul Reimers, “Memories”
George Ballard, “There’s a Long Long Trail”

Links to other stuff is in the transcript.

Part 2: Jody Shipka's Response

In hopes that someone could tell me what my piece in Part 1 has to do with pedagogy, I turned to two smart friends who are interested in the past.

First, there's Jody Shipka, who teaches at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, tweets at @remediatethis, and is currently working on a project called "Inhabiting Dorothy." You can find out more about this and other projects at remediatethis.com.

Part 3: Jen Michaels' Response

Next, we hear a response from Jen Michaels, a doctoral candidate at the Ohio State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @jenlmichaels and learn more about her work at jenmichaels.net.

She mentions the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives a lot, which you know about, right?

End Matter

Produced and recorded by Kyle Stedman ([email protected]; @kstedman), assistant professor of English at Rockford University, in cooperation with KairosCast and Writing Commons. Please contact me if you have ideas for future episodes or stories about how you've used the ideas you've heard on the show!

The theme music at the beginning of the episode is by Cactus May, graduate student in rhetoric and composition, and the final song was Disco Dan, "Blue Lightning."

The show is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Images

And just for fun, here's some of the cool stuff I mentioned in Part 1.