Schedule | Spring 2014

WEEK 1
W 1/22 (1)

Homework

Obtain Books

See the syllabus.

Day 1. In Class: Introduce "New Media Writing" and "The Social-Creativity Project"

Syllabus

New Media / Writing

Handout

Ikea (3 written treatments)

Writing as the "representation of an utterance" (PVIPEN)

Characteristics of "Writing" with a capital "W," as in sample C from the Ikea handout

Point of View

Voice

Implication/Irony

Presence

Experience

Narrative

The First Assignment

The Social-Creativity Project, due 2/13

Resources

• War of the Worlds (H.G Wells, Steven Spielberg 2005)
• Lou Beach's book 420 Characters
• Sistine Chapel
• "Touched by His Noodly Appendage"
  

Terms

• New Media
• Writing
• Reading
• data entry
• writing as "the representation of an utterance, words that someone has said or is imagined to say."
• "New Media's Always Very Tricky"

F 1/24 (2)

Homework

Readings

Printout, read, mark, and bring in Sven Birkerts, Introduction and Chapter 1: "MahVuhHuhPuh," both available as PDFs via the course Moodle site.

Follow the "Moodle" link in the menu above, and then open the PDF files under the section heading "Readings").

As you read these assignments, try practicing the techniques of Active Reading as you look for responses to the following questions. Be sure to mark your printouts to show where and how Birkerts speaks to these issues:

Thought Questions

1. In what particular ways does Birkerts define writing and reading?

2. How do these styles of writing and reading represent not just literary practices but social and personal values and ways of living?

3. How does "New Media" or networked life threaten these ways of writing, reading, and living?  What values, experiences, or abilities does New Media make obsolete?

4. In what ways is Birkerts writing an example of "Writing" (example C from the Ikea handout, more so than samples A or B)?  

Do not come to class without these printouts! You can printout a PDF with two pages per sheet if you wish.

Advice

Note that the first paragraph of Chapter 1 is something of a false start: dense and vague.

Start with the second paragraph. Come back and read the first paragraph after you've finished the chapter.

Photocopy One Page

After you have read and marked the two chapters, choose one page to photocopy and bring to class to turn in to show an example of your reading actively. Be sure to write your name in the upper right corner of the page.

Day 2.Writing, Reading, Thinking, Living

Review of Wednesday

• "New Media's Always Very Tricky" (characteristics of New Media) using What Was There (Put History in its Place)
• PVIPEN: characteristics of Writing [Type C from the Ikeahandout]

The First Assignment

The Social-Creativity Project, due 2/13

Discussion

Discussion of Sven Birkerts and his relationships to the The Social-Creativity Project.

PVIPEN

characteristics of "Writing" with a capital "W," as in sample C from the Ikea handout

Point of View

Voice

Implication/Irony

Presence

Experience

Narrative

Resources

• What Was There (Put History in its Place)

Homework

See homework for 1/29

Wind-Chill Day - No Class Meeting

Homework

Readings

Printout, read, mark, and bring in Janet Murray's Chapter 3, "From Additive to Expressive Forms" available as a PDF via the course Moodle site

Do

1. Come in having memorized Murray's Four Principles of New Media, which you can remember by the acronym "PEPS."

2. Using the techniques of Active Reading, identify passages that you think might speak to some of the concerns and issues from Birkerts, either agreeing or disagreeing with him.

3. In the Moodle forum "Murray's PEPS: Illustrations of Each," relate each of Murray's four principles of New Media to details of a particular example of New Media (of your own choosing). In a couple of sentences for each, explain how that example illustrates Murray's idea.

You can use the same piece of New Media for all four principles.

If possible, provide a clickable URL for the example of New Media, or for a page or video that shows or explains what it's like.

Day 3. [Meet in BohH 343]

Principles of New Media

The Dynamics of this Page

Discussion

Discussion of Janet Murray's Four Principles of New Media (PEPS) and The Social-Creativity Project.

PEPS

• P
• E
• P
• S

Additive v. Expressive Forms in History

• "motion picture" as a movie
• "a comic epic poem in prose" as a novel (Henry Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742):
• a horse as a "car with no wheels"  

Writing

Dialogue of Birkerts and Murray about Traditional and New Media.

Homework

Readings

Read the beginning of McFarland's Chapter 1" Dreamweaver CS6 Guided Tour," pages 21-49 (stop at "Managing Files and Folders...").

Be sure you have a good handle on the location, look, and purposes of the following elements of the Dreamweaver interface

• document window
• file panel
• property inspector
• tag selector

Write Online

In a message to the Moodle forum "Birkerts and Murray," pair up quotations from these two writers as described on the handout and then write a short paragraph of your own commenting on the degree to which Birkerts challenges Murray, or that Murray answers Birkerts.

Do

On your USB drive, create the following set of nested folders:

new media writing

www

4250

exercises

social

assets

essay

was

assets

Day 4. [Meet in LIB 118]
Dreamweaver Introduction
Missing CD

The Dynamics of this Page

PEPS

Additive v. Expressive Forms in History

• "motion picture" as a movie
• "a comic epic poem in prose" as a novel (Henry Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742):
• a horse as a "car with no wheels" 

Social Creativity Project

The Social-Creativity Project (Implementation and Murray's Four Principles of New Media) (Consequences of participation)

Dreamweaver: Setting Up to Do McFarland's Chapter 1

Creating Our First Web Page

As part of Setting Up to Do McFarland's Chapter 1, you will create your first web page following directions on pages 44-48.

Homework

Bring

Manovich's "Poetics of Augmented Space

Read

Read over the assignment for the project Writing in Augmented Space "

Write and Post to Moodle

Write a review of one of Janet Cardiff's audio walks in the forum "Cardiff Reviews." Choose one of the walks at Cardiff/Bures Miller Walks, read the text, look at the slideshow, and listen to the audio excerpt. Include a clickable link to the walk in your posting.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the location and intended effect of the walk (as best you can tell from the description, the audio excerpt, and dialogue included, etc.)?
2. How does the walk exploit differences between the location as the audience finds it, and the place as created by the audio/video? (This gap is the same as the discrepancy created by the video telescope in Cardiff and Miller's introductory video.)
3. What are some techniques that we might learn from this walk for creating effects in our own WAS Projects?
4. Include a clickable URL to the page of the walk.

Day 25. Writing in Augmented Space [Meet in Library 118]

Introduce Next Project:

Writing in Augmented Space

Receive

The handout "Juggling"

Discuss

Cardiff audio walk reviews

Resources

• Warroad from the Water
• Iowa 80 Walcott Tour
• Cardiff/Bures Miller Walks
• Alter Bahnhof Video Walk (Cardiff/Bures Miller)
• "It's My Home Town" (article written for the Florida State University newspaper The Flambeau, which refers to the location above)

Homework

Read, Write, and Post

Read the handout "Juggling" and try writing a paragraph that practices this technique. Post these experiments in the Moodle forum "Juggling."

Be Ready to Discuss

How do Cardiff's New-Media techniques for what Stern calls "sliding" from the Here/Now to the Not Here/Now differ from Stern's text-based techniques?

Day 26. Juggling, Tours vs. Walks, Three Circles

Questions?

The Writing in Augmented Space Project?

Juggline

"Juggling" (handout), from Jerome Stern's Making Shapely Fiction

Interweaving Techniques in New Media

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk (Cardiff/Bures Miller)

Discuss

Public and Personal Writing, Genre

Resources

• "Rental Property"
• "Down an Old Dirt Road"
• Alter Bahnhof Video Walk (Cardiff/Bures Miller)
• Warroad from the Water
• Layar: Impactful Augmented Reality (San Francisco)
• Iowa 80 Walcott Tour
• PS 1 Audio Walk (Cardiff Miller)
• Cardiff/Bures Miller Walks
• Alter Bahnhof Video Walk (Cardiff/Bures Miller)
• "It's My Home Town" (article written for the Florida State University newspaper The Flambeau, which refers to the location above)
• Juggling Sample (room to memory)

Homework: Day 27

Write and Post to Moodle

As you are on campus, take notice of the QR codes on the walls, which are part of the campus self-guided tour.

Choose one of the locations where the QR code appears and write an alternative, WAS script for that location, which focuses on something entirely different from what you would expect of a campus tour (especially an official one).

Use

• a Cardiff-like imperative voice,
• details of the location,
• Stern's juggling/interweaving, OR
• whatever New-Media equivalent techniques you can think of

to imbue that location with meaning and feeling. Try to achieve that effect in 100 words or less. You can also include verbal cues for sound effects or music.

Post your alternative script to the Moodle forum "Campus Anti-Tour," and include the location.

If you would like and are able to, take and include a visible picture of the location (with QR code visible if possible, even if only distantly). What matters more that the picture emphasizes the key details of the location which you are writing about, rather than the QR code itself.

If you absolutely can't find one of these QR code stickers, or really want to use a different location on campus, please include a picture or two of the place in your posting and describe where it is before your juggling passage.

[Snow Day 2014]:

Class Activities for Day 27 Moved to Monday; Homework for Day 27 Still Due Today.

Homework

Download to a Device

Download the podcast or audio files for Cardiff's and Miller's Her Long Black Hair to a phone or MP3 player (or some other device like a small laptop that you would be able to carry around with headphones).

If you're uncertain about how to download sound or music files, you could simply listen to the files streaming online if your portable device is internet-enabled.

The web page at the link above has directions for downloading to iTunes.

Walk and Listen

In the spirit of the "participatory" nature of augmented-space writing, try walking around somewhere as you listen to Her Long Black Hair. When Cardiff tells you to stop, stop--to sit down, sit down (if there's anywhere safe to sit).

It would be ideal if we could all take a weekend class field trip to New York City to follow the walk through Central Park, but let's try to at least get a feeling of how it is to move, listen, and participate.

Please choose a place that is safe to walk and loiter while you're walking around in augmented space.

Write, Print, and Bring in a Paragraph

Write and bring to class a paragraph that answers one or some of the following questions:

• What Her Long Black Hair is about (since it's not about Central Park, which would make the piece a simple tour.)?
  
  
• How does Her Long Black Hair use techniques like Juggling (or New Media equivalents) to take us from A in our concentric-circle diagram to C: that is, from the "Here and Now" in the center circle, past the merely factual and descriptive material in the middle cirlce, to the more writing-like purposes and effects in the outer, C Circle?
  
  If so, what words would you use to identify those purposes and effects?
  
  
• This project is clearly not using a print genre as a starting point--as opposed to what the assignment asks you to do.
  
  What print-based genre or genres might help us interpret and characterize the voice, effects, and purposes of this augmented-space installation? (Examples of genres would be the short story, personal essay, poetry, magazine article, history, academic essay, etc. etc.). Maybe some combination of genres?

Day 27 [Moved from Snow Day Friday]. Juggling in Old and New Media, Script Format, Genre

Deadlines for WAS Project

1. Wednesday, April 16: Printed Script due
2. Tuesday, April 29: Podcast Episodes with Audio due
3. Tuesday, May 6: Web Site due

Review from Last Time

• Tour vs. Walk (Concentric Circles A, B, C)
• Jimmy Fallon's Thank You Notes (social creativity format)

Script Format (and Genre)

I will give you a copy of the Script Format Handout, which features the first two pages of a sample script that attempts to translate a personal feature article published in a newspaper into augmented space.

Discuss Experience of WAS

Please have your paragraphs ready to talk about. Please remind me to collect these paragraphs at the end of class.

Example of a WAS Project

• "Rental Property" and the concentric circles. Issues of publicness, density, etc.
• Denfield

Comment: Genre (Homework)

• Mary Karr's Liars Club (memoir)
• commentary on a John Price memoir
• Genre Exercise handout

Resources

• Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" ("blad of pave," section 8)
• Free QR Code Generator
• Rock Music Genres

Homework

Use the Genre Exercise handout, which contains the following:

1. Choose a Genre

Choose a genre of writing that you will to translate to augmented space in your WAS project.

Generally speaking, the "genre" of a piece of writing is the form it takes: for example, a detective novel, a magazine feature article, a biography, a sonnet, an academic analysis, a personal essay, etc.

A genre is defined not only by the textual features and structures, but by the medium and the audience for the piece of writing.

Try to choose a genre that you're familiar with, ideally that you are a fan of.

Attempting to work in a genre that you don't know or like is a recipe for disaster. An analogy would be genres of music: can you imagine getting up on stage and trying to sing Rockabilly (or Comic Opera, or Hair Metal, or Swamp Pop) if you never particularly listened to or cared about it? Imagine yourself performing for audience who did.

2. Make a List

Make a list of 3-5 specific examples of that genre. Think about the ultimate effects and meanings of these works for its audience.  What do they do for their audiences?  What makes each one good?

3. Research Some Reviews or Commentaries

Do a Google search for reviews or other commentaries on 2 or 3 of your examples (see this commentary on a John Price memoir, for instance).

Beyond the factual content of the writings (Circle A and B in our Concentric Circles Diagram), what are the possible kinds of meanings, emotions, perspectives, ideologies, universal ideas, etc. do examples of this genre achieve out in Circle C?

4. Write a One-Page Commentary

In one, double-spaced page, write an analysis of what is possible in this genre: the directions and destinations that are possible, the meanings and ideas, the emotions and experiences, the reasons why people like it.

5. Come in Prepared to Discuss

Come to class ready to discuss

1. what you've realized about your chosen genre,
2. what might be possible when that genre is translated to augmented space, and
3. how this translated genre might be utilized as a vehicle for the ideas you have for your project.

Day 28. Coming to Terms with Genre

Review From Last Time

Her Long Black Hair and Orpheus.

Genre and the Concentric Circle Diagram

Long-Distance Relationship Example

Genre Groups

1. As a class, we'll make a list of genres that you've identified with (crucially) some examples.
2. You'll find a genre group in the room and gather with them. Take your commentary.
3. Your group will discuss what ultimate effects, meanings, emotions, and experiences that this genre makes possible for you to create for an audience. What does this genre make possible in Circle C?
4. Each of you should compose a list of effects, meanings, emotions, and experiences that the genre makes possible in Circle C. This is you personal take-way from your group's discussion
   
   Make two copies of this list:

• Write this list at the bottom of the homework's Commentary that you'll turn in at the end of class.
  
  
• Make a copy of the list so you can post it to the Moodle forum "Genres for the WAS Project" as homework for next time.

Homework

Post to Moodle
(Follow-Up on Last Meeting)

In the Moodle forum "Genres for the WAS Project":

The first person to arrive in the forum from each Genre Group should create and name a discussion for that group, using the name of the genre as the discussion title. 

(If your genre doesn't appear by noon on the day before today's class, create your own.  Be sure you give the discussion a name that clearly identifies it as a genre.)

In a response to the appropriate discussion, make a list of the larger effects, meanings, emotions, and experiences that the genre makes possible for the audience.  Be as specific as you can. 

WAS Prospectus:
Write, Print, Paste, and Submit

1. In a file that you can save on your USB, copy and paste the questions below and then write answers to each concerning your current idea about your WAS project. This will be your "WAS Prospectus."

2. Paste the answer to each question into this online Prospectus Form, which will send the answers to me.

3. Print out your saved copy of the WAS Prospectus and bring the hard copy to use in class today. You will not be able to participate in class without a printout.

WAS Prospectus Questions

1. a title

2. name of the place and a brief description

3. list of possible key locations, views, or gazes within that place. Make notes about these locations if you can.

4. a description of the old-media genre that you're emulating: poem, memoir, fictional short story, magazine feature article, argumentative analysis, etc. If you have a particular example in mind, describe it as well: a specific Stephen King short story, a particular New York Times article, a specific Daily Show segment, etc.

5. a list of "C Circle" items: flashbacks, universal ideas, emotions, perspectives, open questions, memories, etc.

6. a sentence speculating on the project's primary meaning or effect as best you understand it now.

7. What was your inspiration for this project idea?

Day 29. WAS Prospectus, Peer Work

In class, we will consult and work with our WAS prospectuses.

Resources

• Cardiff's and Miller's Her Long Black Hair
• Mary Karr's Liars Club (memoir)
• Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" ("blad of pave," section 8)

Homework

Begin Writing

Work on your script. You don’t necessarily have to start at the beginning.  Try to get the voice down first, then add the directions and formatting later.  

Try to weave together the voice on the page with the audience’s physical experience in the place.  

The script will be due this week.

Read, Choose, Bring in

Come in with a passage chosen from a published example of your genre (a romance novel, a memoir, etc.) in which the writer makes a move--that is, achieves an effect or solves a writing problem that gets the reader into Circle C--that you want to emulate in your project.  In other words, come in with a technique that you want to try to translate into augmented space.  

Be Prepared

Be ready to share that passage, and talk about that technique, and how that technique solves a problem or achieves an effect.  

Come in With

Come in with a problem or question about writing the script for the WAS Project.

Day 30. WAS Script Topics

Writing

We will post model passages of writing in the Moodle forum, "Writing Passages."

Be sure to identify the author, title, and genre of the work from which you've taken your passage.

Resources

Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.

- Truman Capote, In Cold Blood. Literary Non-fiction (handout)

Homework

Write and Print a Script

Write, print, and bring in a copy of your script for the WAS Project, following the script format.

Paragraph of Commentary

On a separate sheet attached at the end, write a paragraph commentary on

• the "Circle C" effects and meanings you were intending to achieve in the script,
• the genre of writing (or the particular author or work) that is your model of purpose, style, voice, etc. in what you're writing,
• any questions you have or any problems you're working through in the writing of the script.

Day 31. Printed Script due for WAS; Podcast 1: Editing Sounds with Audacity

Getting Ready

On your computer, find and open the software "Audacity"

From the Moodle site, download to your USB drive the two sound files under "Resources": Crickets, and the music file "Among the Falls"

Open Dreamweaver and import your "www" site information.

Review the Schedule

WAS Podcast and revised script due Thursday 4/29 by noon

Exercise: Audacity for Recording and Editing Sound

I will give you a copy of the handout "Audacity for Sound Recording and Editing"

Save the .wav file that you export from Audacity into a new folder called "assets" inside a new folder "audacity" that you create inside of "exercises" (that is, www/4250/exercises/audacity/assets).

Exercise: Embedding Sound Files in a Web Page

I will give you the handout "Embedding Sound Files in a Web Page"

Embed the .wav file from the exercise above into a page "index.html" inside of the folder "audacity" (that is, www/4250/exercises/audacity).

Upload the entire "audacity" folder to the web and test the sound player in your browser. Note that the player may take a few extra seconds to load after the page loads in your browser.

Visit the page with your browser, copy the URL of the index.html page, and paste the URL as a clickable link to a reply to the Moodle forum, "Audacity and Embedded Sound File."

Resources

• Crickets (sound file also available in Moodle "Resources")
• Free SFX (hit the "Music" tab for royalty-free music)
• Freesound.org
• Media College Free Sound Effects
• GR Sites Sound Effects
• Audacity Manual and Tutorials
• Recording inline rather than via microphone
• Recording audio from YouTube or other streaming site

• Writing in Augmented Space assignment

Homework

Work on your scripts and sound files

Day 32. WAS Podcast 2: mp3s, Embedding Sound Files, Image Maps

Sample Podcast Format

• Bog Standard

Show and Tell

• Zombie, Run! (Genre-borrowing)
• Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk (discussed in the NY Times article "Chasing the Ghosts of Poet's Past")

Complete Audacity Exercise

The ending of our exercise from last time asked you to:

save the .wav file that you export from Audacity into a new folder called "assets" inside a new folder "audacity" that you create inside of "exercises" (that is, www/4250/exercises/audacity/assets).

Exercise: Converting a Sound File to .mp3

Try out the web app AudioFormat to convert your .wav file to .mp3.

Save the resulting .mp3 version of the file in the same "assets" folder as the .wav file (that is, www/4250/exercises/audacity/assets).

Exercise: Embedding Sound Files in a Web Page

I will give you the handout "Embedding Sound Files in a Web Page"

Embed the .mp3 file (or .wav if that's all you have) from the exercise above into a page "index.html" inside of a folder "audacity" (that is, www/4250/exercises/audacity).

Upload the entire "audacity" folder to the web and test the sound player in your browser. Note that the player may take a few extra seconds to load after the page loads in your browser.

Visit the page with your browser, copy the URL of the index.html page, and paste the URL as a clickable link to a reply to the Moodle forum, "Audacity and Embedded Sound File."

Visual Texts in Augmented Space Projects

• Her Long Black Hair
• East Village Poetry Walk
• Sample Project Podcast: Bog Standard

Exercise: Image Maps

• I will give you a copy of the tutorial Image Maps
• On a Mac, the quick command for taking a screen shot and saving it on the computer's clipboard is
  command+control+shift+4
  
• We will complete this exercise on the page "index.html" from the exercise saved in "www/4250/exercises/audacity":
• A clickable URL to this exercise should be sent to the forum "Image Maps."

Homework

Get Inspired!

Read the online New York Times' article "Chasing the Ghosts of Poet's Past" and then listen to at least ten minutes of Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk.

What techniques and effects can we learn from this new example? How is this walk different in its techniques and effects from Cardiff/Miller's?

Scripts and Mixes

Work on revising your script and beginning to put together your sound files.

Note that you can begin collecting, organizing, and stacking your sound files into mixes even before recording your narration. You can also record your narration in pieces and move the pieces around as needed.

Sounds

Begin collecting and recording sounds effects and music that you might use in your project.

Download Audacity to your own laptop or desktop so you can import these sounds into the editing software and begin creating your mixes.

Images and Maps

Bring to class images that might provide raw material for your podcast cover art, web-site banner, maps, and other visual content that might be part of your project.

Day 33. WAS Podcast 3

Signing Up for a Required Conference

See the Wiki on the Moodle site "Required Conferences"

Talking to Yourself in Freewriting

As an exercise, open a Word file, save it to your USB drive, and write steadily for five mintues without stopping.

Write to yourself about your Writing in Augmented Space project: your script, your subject, its meaning, recording the script, etc.

Ask yourself questions and then try answering them, or re-thinking the questions.

No one will read this but you.

I would suggest doing this again soon before coming in for your conference to warm up for our discussion.

Two Models for the Podcast web pages

• Model for projects that include supplemental maps, images, or documents for each locatipn
• Model for projects that use only an audio file for each location without supplemental materials.

Exercise: Image Maps

• I will give you a copy of the tutorial Image Maps
• On a Mac, the quick command for taking a screen shot and saving it on the computer's clipboard is
  command+control+shift+4
  
• We will complete this exercise on the page "index.html" from the exercise saved in "www/4250/exercises/audacity":
• A clickable URL to this exercise should be sent to the forum "Image Maps."

Homework

Sign Up for a Conference This Week

Sign up and prepare for 1 required conference this week.

Use the Wiki on the Moodle site "Required Conferences" to sign up:

1. Click open the Wiki,
2. choose the "Edit" tab at the top,
3. type your name next to one of the available times,
4. click Save
5. Check to see that your name appears with the "View" tab chosen at the top.

Do not add times or days. If you cannot meet during any of the available times, please email me.

Prepare for Your Conference

Come in having done a five-minute Freewriting about the project.

Have questions, concerns, and/or ideas for revision to discuss.

Conferences Begin Tuesday

Day 34. WAS Podcast 4.
Class Cancelled for Required Conferences

Conferences Continue Thursday

Day 35. WAS Podcast 5.
Class Cancelled for Required Conferences

Homework

Bring all materials to work on your WAS script revision and podcast, due by noon tomorrow.

I would suggest saving your podcast HTML pages and audio files in a sub-folder called "podcast" inside of the folder "WAS" (that is, in a folder "4250/WAS/podcast").

Power Failure: 1014. No Class Meeting

Homework

Bring all materials to work on your WAS script revision and podcast, due by noon tomorrow.

I would suggest saving your podcast HTML pages and audio files in a sub-folder called "podcast" inside of the folder "WAS" (that is, in a folder "4250/WAS/podcast").

Day 36. WAS Podcast 6: Studio Day

Two Models for the Podcast web pages

• Mutli-Page Model for projects that include supplemental maps, images, or documents for each locatipn
• Single-Page Model for projects that use only an audio file for each location without supplemental materials.

Where To Put Your Podcast

Save your podcast HTML page(s), audio files, image files, etc. in a sub-folder called "podcast" inside of the folder "WAS" (that is, in a folder "www/4250/WAS/podcast").

Be sure to have the main HTML page as "index.html".

Keep all files that go with the podcast and make it work in that "podcast" folder.

If you are using WordPress for your podcast's HTML page(s) and don't know how to upload audio files to WordPress, you can always upload them to a folder "www/4250/WAS/podcast" and insert links to them on your WordPress page.

Resources

• Tutoria:l Audacity for Sound Recording and Editing
• Audacity Manual and Tutorials
• Tutorial: "Embedding Sound Files in a Web Page"
• Writing in Augmented Space assignment
• Web app AudioFormat to convert your .wav file to .mp3.
• Tutorial: Image Maps
• Beginning and Intermediate Banner Techniques