{"id":3551,"date":"2009-08-23T05:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tesl-ej.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=3551"},"modified":"2009-08-23T05:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T12:41:44","slug":"ej18int_a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tesl-ej.org\/wordpress\/issues\/volume5\/ej18\/ej18int_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with an Online Instructor: The Methodology (Part One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 2001 — Volume 5, Number 2<\/h3>\n

Interview with an Online Instructor: The Methodology
\n (Part One)<\/h2>\n

Jim Duber<\/a>
\n duber dot com
\n <jim@duber.com<\/a>><\/h3>\n

The last issue of this column<\/a> featured an audio-based "Interview with an Online Instructor" with Maggie Sokolik. This time I will follow through on the promise to address the audio production from a do-it-yourself perspective by briefly describing how the audio portion of the interview was carried out. <\/p>\n

\n Get Ready, Get Set…<\/u><\/h2>\n

\n The options in terms of hardware required to produce and deliver online audio interviews are practically unlimited. These range from using an analog tape recorder (an "old-fashioned" but perfectly viable procedure) to all sorts of purely digital setups. I’ve recently chosen to invest in the latest in firewire-based mobile digital audio systems, the MOTU-828<\/a>. This is a cross-platform (Mac\/Windows) piece of hardware that provides a professional quality digital recording system with plenty of input and output connections for high end microphones, among other analog and digital devices (for example, electric guitars, ADAT devices, etc.). <\/p>\n

\"Front
\n (Figure 1–Front view of the MOTU 828)<\/p>\n

\"Rear
\n (Figure 2–Rear view of the MOTU 828)<\/p>\n

\n The MOTU 828 connects directly to my laptop computer with a single firewire cable. <\/p>\n

\"Firewire<\/a>
\n (Figure 3–One end of a firewire cable)<\/a><\/p>\n

I connected two microphones to the MOTU device, one to record the voice of the interviewee and the other for that of the interviewer. To allow for hands-free control, as the interviewer I clipped a lavalier microphone to my shirt collar and placed a second microphone on a stand in front of and slightly above the interviewee, so as to allow her to speak naturally and in a comfortable position. <\/p>\n

\"The
\n (Figure 4–The lavalier microphone)
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On-Stand<\/a>
\n (Figure 5–On-stand Microphone)<\/a><\/p>\n

\n To help assure and extend the computer’s maximum performance, I’ve added an external firewire hard-drive on which to record large media files, such as those created in producing audio and video digitally. <\/p>\n

\"Hardware<\/a>
\n (Figure 6–Hardware setup with firewire drive visible underneath the MOTU 828)<\/a><\/p>\n

\n With all the equipment connected properly, I chose a quiet location for the setup and performed a few short test recordings just to check for proper input levels and to make sure everything was working as expected. And with that, the interview was ready to begin. <\/p>\n

Continue to Part Two of this Column<\/a><\/b>\n <\/p>\n\n\n
© Copyright rests with authors. Please cite TESL-EJ appropriately. <\/p>\n

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