Models & Prototypes
- Refugee Odyssey Podcasts (made by teachers at the 2016 Odyssey)
- The Living History Podcasts (made by Anna's students in 2016)
- The Mad Props Podcasts (made by Alec's students in 2016)
- The Absolutely True Audio Diaries (made by Alec's students in 2016)
- Alec's podcast prototype: the Edumacation Podcast (interview with Ben Daley)
- Everything Alec made for his prototype is in this folder
Your biggest logistical decision is which audio editor to use. Here are three options:
- Garageband
- Use this if:
- your students have access to apple computers
- you feel confident using mac interfaces
- Use this if:
- Audacity
- Use this if:
- your students have access to Macs or PCs (it won't work with chromebooks)
- you want your students to use industry-standard software (read more about this here)
- Use this if:
- Beautiful Audio Editor
- Use this if:
- your students only have access to chromebooks
- Use this if:
Documents from the Slice:
Interview Audio:
Rose and Ratha's interviews and "room tone" are in this folder
Useful documents and templates for a podcasting project
- Podcast Planner
- "Tape Log" model
- Make your "Tape Log" by listening to your interview and taking notes on it. MAKE SURE to keep track of timings. This will make life much simpler when you're making your podcast!
- Podcast First Draft Critique Sheet
Examples of Podcast Outlines from the Mad Props project:
Resources for podcasting:
Articles about equipment for podcasting:
Articles about making podcasts:
Podcasts about podcasting:
Using podcasts in the classroom
A list of San Diego-based podcasts
A playlist of excerpts from a conversation Alec's students had with editors from Gimlet Media about how to make a podcast:
- Making a home studio (includes how to build your own reflection filter) (Transom)
- Voice recording gear (Transom)
- Recording phone calls (Transom)
Articles about making podcasts:
- This American Life producer Alex Blumberg on how he makes a story for radio
- How to arrive for an interview
Podcasts about podcasting:
- The Secret Formula (how Gimlet makes a podcast, including critiquing a draft!)
- Tape (interviews with people who make radio and podcasts)
Using podcasts in the classroom
- Teacher writes in The Atlantic about the power of listening to podcasts while reading transcripts (obvious question: how many podcasts have transcripts?)
- Mindshift article about a teacher who did a Storycorps project (as in, actually collaborating with Storycorps
- Serial-inspired podcast project
- Edutopia list of podcasts for education
- Radio Rookies Toolkit (WNYC)
- How to make a podcast (Youth Radio)
A list of San Diego-based podcasts
A playlist of excerpts from a conversation Alec's students had with editors from Gimlet Media about how to make a podcast:
- The playlist is here (it's private so ask Alec for the password)
Awesome examples of podcasts:
Podcasts about refugees:
Miscellaneous awesome podcasts:
Lessons on writing (all writing, not just podcast writing) from podcasts:
Miscellaneous awesome podcasts:
- Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl (Radiolab)
- The psychological power of blood (Radiolab)
- The physiological power of young blood (Radiolab)
- The big business of blood “donations” (Radiolab)
- warning: may make you want to stop donating blood
- Why isn’t the sky blue? (Radiolab)
- Dinopocalypse (alternate theory of how the dinosaurs died out (Radiolab)
- How do you solve a problem like Fritz Haber? (Radiolab)
- The skull (The Tong Child) (Radiolab)
- Debatable (This American Life)
- The Writing on the Wall (college racism) (Reply All)
- Rukmini Callimachi on ISIS (Reply All)
- The Guatemalan woman who basically took down her corrupt government (Reply All)
- The Cathedral (story of the game ‘that dragon, cancer) (Reply All)
- DMV Nation: Why government websites are so bad (Reply All)
- The Takeover (teenage online office roleplay) (Reply All)
- The Girl Guides in WWII (Reply All)
- I’ve killed People and I have hostages (about “swatting”) (Reply All)
- This Proves Everything (One Direction Conspiracy Theories) (Reply All)
- Diversity Report (Startup)
- Raising the Bar (business diversity - kind of a companion to “Diversity Report”) (Reply All)
- A History of the World in 100 Objects: Clovis Spear Point, Head of Alexander
Lessons on writing (all writing, not just podcast writing) from podcasts:
- Longform: Jon Favreau describes the audience he envisaged when writing speeches for Obama (26:30)
- Longform: Tavi Gevinson - “Writing is a little bit of vomiting and mostly editing.”
- Longform: Ta-Nehisi Coates. The power of revision: the sooner you get your rough draft done, the better off you are. (50:48)
- 50:17 “[rewriting] is the part that’s fun. Getting the draft out is extremely painful, and everything from that forward is a lot better. When I teach writing, I tell students “just write it, put something on the page. Everything will be better after that.”
Interesting Readings, Videos, Websites, and Resources about Refugees (and about San Diego)
About Refugees in San Diego:
Generally Useful Websites
Portraits & other images
Other thought-provoking photos
Explainers & background
What it’s like to be a refugee
Refugees’ Journeys
The Political Scene
Terrorism
Economic & social pros/cons of taking on Refugees (mostly opinion pieces)
Philosophy and Ethics
Refugees in history (& other history stuff)
Latin American Refugees & Migrants
VideosShort and thought-provoking (or inspiring)
Intros & Overviews
Speeches & Interviews
Theater
Poetry
Lesson Plans
The refugee simulation that Alec and his colleagues made to launch a project
Facing History and Ourselves
Teaching Tolerance
Simulations:
- Tatiana Sanchez, “County Tops in Refugee Resettlement” (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- Megan Burks, “San Diego’s Richest Poor Neighborhood, Two Decades Later” (Voice of San Diego)
- Demographic Profile of City Heights from La Maestra
- Comment: Three Perspectives on Refugees in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
Generally Useful Websites
- San Diego Refugee Forum
- United Nations High Commission on Refugees
- UNHCR “Tracks” (lots of stories)
- Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange
- IRC San Diego
Portraits & other images
- Images from Nowhere People, a collection of photographs of stateless people around the world (these are from a book, but the full book is really expensive).
- Humans of New York focus on refugees: on posters with written notes
- http://www.humansofnewyork.com/archive (end of September, beginning of October)
- http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9432133/syria-crisis-hony (why Humans of New York chose to focus on the refugee crisis)
- Photos of refugee children sleeping (see, think, wonder activity)
- Photo essay: Life in a refugee camp
- Syrian refugees dream of home: quotes and photos of refugees
- Photos that humanize refugees (photographer talks about the importance of their individual stories)
- Fleeing children in photos
- Photos of refugee camps taken by children (National Geographic)
Other thought-provoking photos
- Banksy draws Steve Jobs as a Syrian migrant
- Response in WIRED: we should take refugees because it’s the right thing to do, not because they might invent the next iphone
- Banksy depicts EU flag with drowned Syrian refugees as stars
- American Indian: “We took in refugees, look what happened to us”
- In order to understand what this means, have a look at this history.com article or this article on Britannica.com
- And John Green covers colonization in this video
- Aaaaaand, you can go deep on Pilgrims with this Smithsonian article
- Table of refugee arrivals into California annually by county, 2000-2014
- Map showing flow of refugees OUT OF countries and INTO Western European countries (doesn’t include the US).
- UNHCR Historical Refugee Data Visualization
- The Refugee Project (awesome stuff) - main thing is map of refugee migrations since 1975
- Meet the Press Nerdscreen on Refugees and Terror
- Typically elegant data visualization from the Guardian
- BBC: Syrian conflict in maps
- BBC: Migrant Crisis in charts and maps
- Economist 2014 Democracy Index
- Transparency International 2014 Perceptions of Corruption Index
Explainers & background
- UNICEF Refugee Crisis Explainer
- UN Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
- This is where it all begins...
- CNN: Which countries welcome Syrian refugees, and which ones don’t
What it’s like to be a refugee
- An Island of Refugees http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-island-of-refugees
- “Refuge” - 18 firsthand accounts of what it’s like to be a refugee
- Guardian journalist houses a refugee in her apartment - an article written by both her and the man she invited to stay
Refugees’ Journeys
- A family’s journey from Syria to Sweden (New York Times)
- Humans of New York: Refugee Stories
- The Displaced (New York Times)
- A Syrian refugee’s journey to Sweden (New Yorker)
- Journalist poses as a refugee in order to make the journey to Australia (NY Times)
- Family of refugees starts a new life in Kentucky
- A New York Times writer who specializes in ISIS describes her own journey as a refugee from Romania (which almost ended when she was stopped in Hungary)
The Political Scene
Terrorism
Economic & social pros/cons of taking on Refugees (mostly opinion pieces)
- Europe should take on more refugees (Economist)
- Anne Applebaum, Refugees clearly had nothing to do with the Paris attacks, but Europe should tighten its borders for the sake of public perception (Slate)
- Refugees will benefit German economy: http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2399261&CategoryId=12396
- http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/09/15/would-syrian-refugees-be-an-economic-boon-or-burden (potential economic benefits to welcoming refugees)
- Economic benefits of refugees (New Yorker)
- David Frum says Europe should stop refugees from entering (Atlantic)
- Six reasons to Welcome refugees after the Paris attacks (Niskanen center (libertarian think tank)
- America should take in refugees (New Yorker comment)
- George Packer, Americans are too apathetic about refugees (New Yorker comment)
- Creating a market for refugees in Europe (New York Times) (Opinion Piece)
Philosophy and Ethics
- Quartz.com summary of a few different philosophers’ arguments concerning what to do about refugees
This includes links to...
Refugees in history (& other history stuff)
- Polling data: American attitudes to Jewish Refugees in the 1930s
- Evian conference on Jewish Refugees (1938)
- Timeline of American response to the Holocaust
- Japanese-American Internment and how it relates to today http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-shadow-of-korematsu/416634/
- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005267 (Voyage of the St. Louis, a boat that came to the U.S. full of Jewish refugees and was turned away)
- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005139 (refugees and WWII)
- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007263 (refugees today)
- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005468 (German Jewish refugees, pre-WWII)
- “What Happened to History’s Refugees’ - The Guardian
- World War II Interactive Timeline & Videos - Link
Latin American Refugees & Migrants
- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/refugee-crisis-grows-in-latin-america-women-children
- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/central-america-child-migrants-us-border-crisis
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/05/these-refugees-lost-almost-everything-to-smugglers/ (maybe they can compare it to coyotes)
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34832184
- Spanish folder with articles regarding Central American migration
- Teachers in Oakland struggling to get help for victims of violence in Central America
- http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/jun/24/lemon-grove-el-cajon-immigrant-youth-shelters/
VideosShort and thought-provoking (or inspiring)
- Save The Children: If Britain were Syria second-a-day video
- Angela Merkel comforts Palestinian teenager who might be deported
- Update: the girl and her family were granted residency
- http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/oct/26/refugees-on-slovenia-croatia-border-drone-video-footage (drone footage of refugees)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/14/watch-4-decades-of-refugee-crises-in-3-minutes/ (global refugee movement in a 3 minute video)
Intros & Overviews
- Migration to Europe - Why Now? (BBC)
- Six-minute animated explanation of the Syrian refugee crisis
- Intro to the crisis, followed-by in-depth reporting on one family in NJ (Vice)
Speeches & Interviews
- John Oliver
- On Refugees (18 minutes)
- On the vetting process for refugees from Syria (5 minutes)
- Benedict Cumberbatch:
- Speech after performing Hamlet (cell phone footage)
- Official refugee appeal
- Nicolas Henin, journalist held by Isis for 10 months, explains that Isis really wants Europe to close its borders to refugees (stuff about refugees starts at about 3:30)
Theater
- Syrian women in Turkey devise theater about their experience (this looks a lot like Habla) (the video’s under 3 minutes)
- Another short video about these folks here
Poetry
- Article: poets speak out for refugees (Guardian)
- Benjamin Zephaniah, “We Refugees”
- W H Auden, Refugee Blues
- Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
- Warsan Shire, “Home”
- Text here
- David Reitsma, “The Tale of the Fortune Hunters”
Lesson Plans
The refugee simulation that Alec and his colleagues made to launch a project
Facing History and Ourselves
- 3 Parables for Integration (a reading from British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks, with suggested questions for response)
- The Rescuers (video clips about diplomats who helped people escape the Nazis during WWII, with background and questions for discussion)
Teaching Tolerance
- “Mainstream, USA” - 26-minute PBS documentary about Clarkston, Georgia, designated a refugee resettlement site in the 1980s, which is now incredibly diverse. Plan includes link to video, background information, and suggested discussion points (the documentary is here)
- “Politics in the New South” - follow-up by the same PBS documentary, about a political race in Clarkston, Georgia that includes refugee candidates
- Pass or Fail in Cambodia Town - again, part of the same PBS documentary series. This is all about the struggles of a refugee community who escaped horrific trauma. And it’s set in Long Beach.
Simulations:
- “What Would You Take With You?” simulation game
- Students go through multiple stations. It’s a structured way of thinking through the choices you need to make as a refugee and going through the process step-by-step.
- UNHCR “Passages” - a 3-hour refugee simulation game
- Just from glancing at it, it seems like Dungeons & Dragons for refugees. Much more complex than “What would you take with you?”