Comments on: LibriVox is podcasting Conrad’s Secret Agent Chapter by Chapter

By: hugh

hugh — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:18:02 +0000

nah, you’ll have to edit all your own umms, unless someone volunteers to do it (not me!) … but when you’re reading text you’re not likely to umm too much!

By: c.k.

c.k. — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:44:22 +0000

Hugh,

Quite possibly! I’d love to be involved. I just need to figure out how to free up some time. Would I be responsible for editing out my own “uhs” or does someone else (please please) handle all that?

By: hugh

hugh — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:01:09 +0000

thanks for the plug! will you be volunteering for a chap of the next book?

all the best.
the librivox “team”…

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Sample the Web » Thinking about Academic uses of podcasting… — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:09:37 +0000

[...] The Librivox project, mentioned below started me thinking on different ways to use podcasts in an educational setting, beyond the expected use as an “audio lecture.” I have presented several papers at conferences that I haven’t ever posted online, as I’m concerned (based on some experience with the phenomenon) that students who are looking for an easy A in their classes, may Google the topic I’ve written on, find the paper, and attempt to role it into their own writing. I also don’t want to limit the possibilities for future publication of these papers by releasing them for free on the Internet in textual form (while this may be a current booster for the sales of fiction books like Cory Doctorow’s various projects online, knowing the way that journals associated with literary studies function, I don’t think such an act would make my articles very viable for publication). However, until they are published they are simply gaining dust, both in my file cabinet, on my computer, and in the minds of the people who listened to me deliver them in person. [...]