I've provided a link for downloading the Harvey Milk audio tour released yesterday. I heard about this on the KCBS radio station. You can find out a bit more by visiting the Inside Stories website. The package includes a flyer about the tour, the Castro tour map, and the 71 minute audio MP3.
This is a great idea, and relatively simple for some of you to create for yourselves in some instances. Beyond have a compelling idea (admittedly the hard part), then you need good audio and one or two pages of printouts. Yet this can be an extremely effective way to create a learning experience for some types of learners. History, social sciences, politics, and other areas of learning could be enhanced using this type of learning experience. Hmm . . . maybe I'll try creating a mini-tour of a small portion of Paris this winter!
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Or a mini tour of USF doctoral course options, of the dissertation format, or of the production process for a journal article?
Those are great ideas Dionne. I think the Research Alouds are kind of like a tour of a journal article.
Dionne: The idea I had in mind was thinking about other ways to use truly mobile audio (iPod in a pocket kind of stuff). So certainly your suggestions work in the most general sense. But as educators I'm guessing we could additionally learn something (at least for some courses) from those museum people, and the Harvey Milk example, about using mobile audio to visit an exhibition, a neighborhood, or something else outside the typical academic environment.
In a very tech-able group, and assignment could be to make one of these... for instance, some teachers ask for personal essays (usually with a focus). I think Dionne mentioned one for her class... not sure if this type of tour would work for that, but it could... kind of like our neighborhood movie for Multimedia.
I also am thinking about younger learners when they learn Spanish... they often learn directions (up, down, left, right, around the corner...) and they could lead a tour in Spanish.
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