Jonathan Krywulak’s Storify: Transliteracy / Transmedia

COMM 597: New Media Narratives Course #NMN provided an explorative journey through the concepts of Transliteracy and Transmedia.   Through a mixture of articles, videos, blogs, tweets, images, and comments we were better able to grasp what it means to be Transliterate and the value associated with it.  My Storify provides a brief overview of Transliteracy and its relation to Transmedia Narratives, where people have the ability to create, curette, and consume content.

#NMN - #Transliteracy and #Digital Literacy

Andrea Soler's storify - #NMN review

Call for Participation! Book Trailer Study

Fellow student Nicole is working with me on a project about book trailers. Exciting right?!

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Digital Literacy & Me

This was my first experience recording a podcast. I’ve never created this type of content for the Web before and it was a really interesting experience. I must have re-recorded my podcast at least a dozen times because I’d always make some mistake near the end, and because I’m new the audio editing, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to fix any missteps. I used the memo recorder on my iPhone and Audacity audio editor to add the music in the background. This was first time using Audacity, and I was surprised how easy it was to use, though I need to keep practicing because it was hard to get the background music volume levels just right.

This experience really taught me how easy it is to create something like a podcast with essentially free software –the recorder on my phone, free audio editors, and to post directly on to Audioboo. I didn’t realize how accessible participating in this type of activity really is for most people. Creating a podcast is not something I would have really considered in the past, because I would have assumed you needed special audio equipment or a special hosting site. This assignment really showed me that truly anyone, with very little skill or equipment, can indeed participate in podcasting – and my digital literacy has increased a little bit more!

The music I use on my podcast is from a great Fredericton band called Sleep Driver (with the band’s permission) http://sleepydriver.ca/

http://digitalliteracy.cornell.edu/

listen to ‘Digital Literacy & Me - Assignment 1’ on Audioboo