NOTE: These projects cut across both Chapters 3 and 4 together.
- Develop an audio tour of your neighborhood. Research the history of the neighborhood, and record stories from neighbors of memorable events or funny or poignant things that have happened in houses or on the street. After you have gotten a good start on your research and interviewing, use the steps of Chapters 3 and 4 to design and produce the tour: distribute the tour as an mp3 file to which people can listen as the file directs them from place to place in the neighborhood.
Here is a link to Audacity, a free cross-platform sound-editing tool you can use to edit sounds you collect.
Here is a link to information about "Art Mobs," audio recordings meant to replace the traditional and sometimes dour audio tours of art museums.
- With several others in your class, develop on online magazine or blog on a topic that you think will be of interest to people who are just about to graduate from college. Together, analyze your concerns about and hopes for graduating, and use your analysis to develop areas where you need to learn more in order to better address your concerns or to help you achieve your hopes. Research into the areas you identify, and design and produce online resources that will attract and be useful to others like you.
