For this project, students were asked to create and record a brief (1 minute or less) narrative using the following six sound effects: a phone ringing, crickets chirping, a heartbeat, striking a match, engine vroom, and water splash. The effects could be used in any order and as many times as needed. However, all 6 had to be used and no other sound effects could be added. All sounds for this project came from Soungle.com, a source of royalty-free sound effects. The intro and closing music is called "Brass Fanfare 4" by Robinhood76 at freesound.org. This project is based on Dr. Christopher Shamburg's "Six Sounds in Search of an Author" contest.

This is a collection of completed Audio Theater projects (Project #1) from my Fall 2009 Podcasting Club. Students were each required to create brief radio dramas using the same 7 lines of dialogue. They had to come up with the relationship between the characters and had to provide unique narration before and after the dialogue. In addition, they were asked to include appropriate background music and sound effects. Music and sound effects in these examples came from ccmixter.org (music) and freesound.org (effects). The intro and closing music is called "Brass Fanfare 4" by Robinhood76 at freesound.org. All music and sound effects have creative commons licensing. This project is based on the work of Dr. Christopher Shamburg.

This is a collection of completed Audio Theater projects from my podcasting mini-course. Five groups of students were each required to create brief radio dramas using the same 7 lines of dialogue. They had to come up with the relationship between the characters and had to provide unique narration before and after the dialogue. In addition, they were asked to include appropriate background music and sound effects, whose creators they verbally credit at the end of their projects. Music and sound effects in these examples came from ccmixter.org (music) and freesound.org (effects). The intro and closing music is called "Wired But Disconnected" by duckett at ccmixter.org. All music and sound effects have creative commons licensing. This project is based on the work of Dr. Christopher Shamburg.

Danilo and Max report on the outcome of Super Bowl XLIII. This is the first episode that we created in class. It was produced as an example of the audio mixing capabilities that are offered by the Audacity software. The background music is entitled "Dance Loop 1" and was composed by essesq at ccmixter.org. It has creative commons licensing.

This podcast is an example of how a completed audio theater podcast should sound. Students will be creating similar podcasts during the mini-course. (Music and sound effects have creative commons licensing. Based on a lesson by Dr. Christopher Shamburg.)

This podcast file was created using Audacity and uploaded to the web using podomatic.com. These will be the tools that we will use to create and share our podcasts during this podcasting mini-course.