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The Artist’s VoiceThe role of podcasts in an online

encyclopaedia of arts, culture and heritageGraham Stewart

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Why podcast?

• “The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed.” William Gibson

• Feasibility of podcasting in education has grown with the rollout of mobile devices

• Valuable component of learner-centred blended e-learning materials

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Why the artist’s voice podcast?

• Part of the ESAACH research and development team project

• ESAACH - 5,000 Southern African author entries online

• Reclamation scholarship• Author reading his/her own work “pinned” to

each entry as a podcast

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ESAACH E-Pack for learners

• Learning “backpacks” linked to authors of prescribed NSC setworks – learning materials for teachers and pupils

• ESAACH E-Packs already prototyped materials such as full texts, images and interactive content like self-test quizzes

• Podcast “proof-of-concept” needed to complete “the pack”

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ESAACH Author Entry – Dennis Brutus

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Design considerations

• Length of podcast.• Balance of content between commentary and

author reading.• Relation to the website content.• Choice of standard introductory content for the

series.• Choice of voice “personality” for the introduction.• Selection of authors (This is a critical sub-problem,

but falls outside the scope of this project.)

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Proof-of-concept prototype

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The Intro-Outro Frame

• Series of podcasts requires standard “Intro-outro” framing

• Example – BBC Podcasts• Standard scripting:

“Welcome to the ESAACH E-pack, your learning backpack in the Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and Heritage Wiki… “

• Suitable intro narrator voice• Familiar format for returning site users

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The Dennis Brutus recording• Restoration of low quality 1997 recording

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Copyright metadataGraham Stewart’s PodcastESAACH E-Pack Podcast – Poet Dennis Brutus

Welcome to the ESAACH E-pack, your learning backpack in the Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and Heritage Wiki.

This podcast is one in a series where we listen to important South African writers speaking about their work.

Graham Stewart's recording of Dennis Brutus reading and commenting on two of his poems: "A Simple Lust" and "Stubborn Hope". Recorded at the CSSALL, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa, September 1997.

Intro: Tankiso Dikibo. Music: Monkoto - Creative Commons Licence Royalty-free. Incompetech Creative Industries

Royalty-free Music 1998-2010 Kevin MacLeod. http://incompetech.comCreative Commons Licence - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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Sidebar

• Restoration and podcasting applications:– City Campus 100-Year Celebration

• Faculty of Arts & Design archive recordings– Restoration and podcasting application

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Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni5kM0l8Qzs