Tech Talk Tuesdays – Sound Bytes: Audio, Podcasting, and More

This Tech Talk Tuesday session explores unique ways that instructors have students implement audio in their assessments. Our speakers, Stephanie Budhai, PhD, Education and Human Development, Nancy Karibjanian, Arts and Sciences, and David Suisman, PhD, Arts and Sciences, will share theirs and their students’ experiences with these assessments.

Stephanie Smith Budhai teaches in the Educational Technology program at the University of Delaware and interdisciplinary research and practice lies at the intersections of equity, technology and civic engagement. She has has published 8 books including The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Exercising Socially Just Leadership and Making Equitable Change, Culturally Responsive Teaching Online and In Person Settings: An Action Planner for Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments, Leveraging Digital Tools to Assess Student Learning, and Best Practices in Engaging Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning in Online Courses, among others.

Director and Instructor
Journalism
College of Arts and Sciences

Nancy Karibjanian (AS 80) is a member of the Department of Communication faculty and director of the journalism minor. Karibjanian began teaching broadcast journalism as an adjunct in 2003 and brings more than thirty years of experience in the field to the classroom. She is a career journalist who has worked in radio and television news for over three decades. She has experience as a reporter, producer, newsroom manager, news anchor, and program moderator/host. Known as a tough interviewer focusing on politics and debates, Karibjanian covered state government and presidential elections along with news of interest on the local level. She was inducted into the University Alumni Wall of Fame in 2011.

Associate Professor
History
College of Arts & Sciences

David Suisman is associate professor of history at the University of Delaware specializing in cultural history, the history of music, sound studies, war and society, and the history of capitalism. His books include Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (Harvard University Press, 2009), and, as co-editor, Capitalism and the Senses (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) and Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, Social Text, Radical History Review, The Believer, American Historical Review, Journal of Social History, and other publications. From 2010 to 2021, he was associate editor and book review editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. A sometime disc jockey at freeform radio station WFMU, he lives in Philadelphia.