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Thinking about our session today, I came away thinking about how to approach sound in my teaching in a variety of ways. For my New York City seminar, I think the Roaring Twenties website that we looked at would be a great way to help students think about the city and urban space in a way that might be difficult to achieve just using text. I’m also excited about using SoundCite as a resource for student projects that they can create on their own and share with their classmates. I’m not sure about how to implement it exactly but working with Audacity to help students present a podcast as a class seems like it could have a lot of possibilities.

Of course, the thing I’m most excited about is laying down some more sick, fat beats on FDR speeches…

As I think about our discussions and  the material we covered, the thing that sticks out to me is how much in Day One has already pushed me to step out of my comfort zone.  Setting up a personal domain and a twitter account were things that I had thought about doing for a quite a while but had never actually done them for a variety of reasons. I’ve enjoyed playing around with WordPress (tweaking my theme and adding some content), although I’m still a bit apprehensive about Twitter ( I am definitely borrowing the idea of having students use twitter for their thesis statement in the fall though).  But Sheila, Sharon, and everyone else has done a great job presenting these ideas and concepts and I’m very excited to take the next step tomorrow.