The #AUCdiaries project is funded by an AMICAL Small Grant and involves creating interdisciplinary podcasts for the occasion of the AUC Centennial (2019). The podcast idea is inspired by Mike Wesch’s Life101 Podcast.
The bulk of the work of creating the content for the podcasts would be done by students as part of AUC courses. As such, this is both a digital pedagogy project (since students are learning while working on it) and a digital scholarship project (as the output will be digital scholarship).
Students have a choice of what they create for the podcasts, which could include documenting their own lives at AUC or the lives of others (e.g. those with disabilities), interviewing alumni (especially notable alumni), interviewing faculty, or even some faculty interviewing students back. It could also include students using existing audio recordings from the AUC archives at the library and in the Digital Archive and Research Repository (DAR). During the process of creating the podcasts, students and faculty will blog openly about the project.
Kim Fox, from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, has implemented the Audio Diary Assignment for several semesters in her Audio Production (JRMC 4460) courses: Fall 2017 , Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019 and Fall 2019.
Hoda Mostafa, the director of the Center for Learning and Teaching, has used podcasts in her classes, Scientific Thinking (SCI 1020) and Creative Thinking and Problem Solving (SEMR 1110), to deliver content and also as student projects. Check out her Minute Science Assignment as a sample for student projects.
#AUCdiaries received an AMICAL Small Grant for this project in 2016, which supported purchasing equipment that faculty incorporating this project could utilize, as well as assistance from Student Technology Assistants.
If faculty members at AUC or AMICAL institutions are interested in piloting this assignment and contributing to this project, please request a consultation and we will contact you to set it up and help you get started.