414: Right to Remain Silent

While discrimating videos are being posted daily on youtube, lets not forget the power of simple old school voice recordings! On Sunday morning two weeks ago, just after having wrapped up our segment of working in GarageBand (Technology in the Classroom) where we used voice recordings to create interviews and narritive biographies, I turned the radio to NPR and became immidiately immersed in a story about a New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft who had recorded himself being framed by his supervisor in his bedroom at his own appartment. I was so dissapointed to have missed the beginning (and apperently the middle and thhe beginning of the end) of the story. I was even more so dissappointed when I searched for it on NPR's website but could not find it. Then, two days later, I logged onto This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) and guess what was being featured on its home page....."414: Right to Remain Silence".... and the story is so much bigger and frighteningly intriguing then I could have possibly imagined.