Welcome to SpokenWeb Pedagogy, a collection of materials for learning and teaching literary sound studies.
The SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership aims to develop coordinated and collaborative approaches to literary historical study, digital development, and critical and pedagogical engagement with diverse collections of literary sound recordings from across Canada and beyond.
About
All files in the collection are converted into Markdown using the SWTools script.
Documentation for the SWTools script describes how it automatically converts pedagogical materials (such as course outlines, lesson plans, and workshop instructions written in a word processor) into Markdown using Pandoc.
The script also generates associated YAML metadata files based on a spreadsheet of metadata (XLSX). YAML for each file includes metadata for the title, layout, filename, permalink, document type, discipline, affiliated project URL, and author’s name(s), institution(s), and email address(es).
The collection is designed to be published to a Jekyll-based web instance. It uses the Minima theme.
Project developer: Callum Carroll-Ireton (UVic)
Project editor: Jentery Sayers (UVic)
Project communications: Joel Wheeler (UVic)
SpokenWeb director and PI: Jason Camlot (Concordia)
Roadmap (as of 30 July 2025)
- Add more files to the collection.
- Render the entire collection available in ZIP for downloading.
- Identify and apply the appropriate license (e.g., CC BY or CC BY-NC).
- Determine whether to develop this proof of concept for publication.
Contribute
If you’re a member of the SpokenWeb team and would like us to add your teaching and learning materials to this collection, then please email your files to Jentery Sayers.