I am studying the intersections of writing and audio recording technologies. My research question is based on two situations, one historic and one contemporary: 1) Despite the fact that audio recording technologies emerged, in part, to supplement to writing, we have largely ignored the role of audio recording technologies in the writing classroom in the past 100 years; 2) Because new digital technologies now allow for multimedia, we are now trying to figure out how to fit things like audio and video into our curricula. My question, then, is this: Given the past and present situations, how do we ethically incorporate multimedia writing tools into our classrooms, curricula, and our histories? I use a hybrid methodology--including oral histories, practice, creating hypermedia--to get at this question. (There's no right answer, after all.)