ENG 308: Introduction to Radio Storytelling

ENG 308 leads students through an introduction to the ever-expanding medium of podcasting, specifically radio storytelling. In the process of exploring the various techniques and trends in a wide variety of audio media, students are expected to develop both an understanding of and proficiency with the basics of audio media creation. In support of this goal, the DMC provided in-class tutorials to learn audio editing techniques with Garageband and Audacity, as well as proper use of the Zoom H4N audio recorders that they rented from the DMC for their projects. Additionally, some students used the DMC’s audio studio for their projects to record high-quality narration. With the aid of these tutorials and the borrowed resources, students created podcasts, developing a storytelling style and identity of their own in the process.

The class website with the final projects can be viewed here.

Flipped Classroom in First-Year Engineering Design Course ENGI 120 (summer of 2015, summer of 2016)

In ENGI 120, a team of faculty at Rice University and other institutions has created instructional resources to support a flipped classroom model for first-year engineering design. Matthew Wettergreen, a lecture of Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice University, and Dr. Ann Saterbak, a professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, have been piloting a number of class periods in the format of flipped classroom since 2015. Their lectures were recorded in the DMC Video/Photography Studio.

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English 386 “Medical Media Arts lab” ( Spring 2014 and Spring 2015 )

This course is offered by Kirsten Ostherr, a professor of English & Director of the Medical Future Lab. In English 386, students worked in small groups to apply critical thinking and theory to hand-on design to create solutions to real -world medical communication, visualization, and design problems.

  1. Links: http://www.medicalfutureslab.org/?page_id=917 (English 386)
  2. DMC Support: DMC offered in class training on digital storytelling with iMovie and image manipulation with Adobe Photoshop.