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Student Projects

Utilize the equipment and software in the audio rooms for academic podcasting, digital storytelling, audio zines and multimedia projects.

Content Creation

Record audio content for presentations, research or creative projects. Music production tools can be used to create original music content.

COVID-19 Online Course and Virtual Options

Podcasts or other audio can be recorded from home using Audacity, a free software, apps for phones or through Skype or Google Hangouts. Virtual assistance in software and troubleshooting is offered by Audiovisual Media Support.

Portable recorder

Portable recorders can be taken anywhere to record professional quality audio. There are a number of options for both beginner and advanced users:

• Roland R-09HR
• Olympus WS-852
• Zoom H5
• Zoom H6 (coming soon)

Microphones

A wide range of microphones are offered to suit a variety of uses:

• Pencil microphones (Instruments)
• Vocal microphones
• Lavalier microphones (Standard and Wireless)
• Podcast microphones
• ​Microphones for filmmaking

Multitrack recording

Equipment in the Audio Rooms supports multitrack recording and editing.

• Scarlett 18i20
• Mac computer with Audacity, Adobe Audition, and other editing software.
• Rodecaster (coming soon)
• ​MIDI controller (coming soon)

Accessories 

Accessories that can be borrowed from the Service Desk include:

• Headphones
• SD Cards
• 3.5mm to ¼” adapters
• XLR to  AUX
• XLR cables
• ​¼” TRS cables for instruments

Consultations 

If you are looking for advice regarding your audio or audiovisual project, please book a consultation with our Audiovisual Media Support. 

Selected Readings 

Learn about the impact podcasting and audio production has on education and scholarship. 

• Scholarship and Research: 

  • The Expanding Digital Media Landscape of Qualitative and Decolonizing Research: Examining Collaborative Podcasting as a Research Method
  • Podcasts can ‘level the playing field’ for researchers looking to break the mould and share accessible findings.
  • ​Podcasting as Social Scholarship: A Tool to Increase the Public Impact of Scholarship and Research

• Pedagogy:

  • Teaching with Learner-Created Podcasts
  • Preparing Your Students for Podcasting: An Interview with Sheila Tefft
  • Podcasting for social justice: exploring the potential of experiential and transformative teaching and learning through social work podcasts.
  • ​Making Radio: Using Audio for Student Assignments

Other Audio/Podcast Studios  

Read about how other universities are leveraging podcasts and audio production institutionally.

• Wilfred Laurier Podcast Studio
• Quinnipiac Podcast Studio
• Brown University
• McMaster University
• ​Augustana University

Reality radio : telling true stories in sound (Second edition, revised and expanded)

N1991.8.D63 R43 2017

Doing oral history : a practical guide (3rd ed.)

Available online

The serial podcast and storytelling in the digital age 

Available online

Podcasting : the audio media revolution 

Available online

Critical approaches to Welcome to Night Vale : podcasting between weather and the void

Available online

Create to learn : introduction to digital literacy 

Available online