audacity to podcast
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Audacity to Podcast
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Sound Check
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Songs 446
Sound Effects 3088
Speeches 44
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What is a Podcast?
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Once you have downloaded the Lame File you will still need to extract the file. By completing this task now you will save yourself a step later
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Understanding Your Audacity Screen
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Step 3Step 3
Rewind and listen to your recording by pressing the purple rewind key and green play key
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Step 1Step 1
Record your voice by clicking the red record button and speaking into the microphone
Step 2Step 2
When you are finished recording press the yellow stop button
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If you mess up simply click the X for the audio track to delete
This one is dedicated to all those with writer’s block
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Download Sound Effects from Discovery Education streaming
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Importing Sound EffectsImporting Sound Effects
After you have downloaded your audio file, simply drag and drop your audio file in or click “Project” “Import Audio” and search for your file. Note, some files are in stereo and will show up as 2 different audio lines
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Shifting AudioShifting Audio
You can shift your audio and sound effects to the desired location, by using the Time Shift Tool Button
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Integration Strategy:
Give students sound effects instead of writing prompts
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Saving and ExportingSaving and Exporting
If you want to save your project and continue working later, click “File” “Save Project”
If you are finished, it is time to “Export As MP3”
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Exporting MP3 for the First TimeExporting MP3 for the First Time
If you choose to “Export as MP3” You will be prompted to find the lame file. You will only need to do this once.
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This one is dedicated to all those struggling readers
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Editing AudioEditing Audio
To edit out errors, click the “I” and highlight the section you want to delete.
Click delete
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Dedicated to the students who seem to have forgotten they have homework…
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Here I have added a music file to play in the background. What I want to do is start the music strong, fade down, then fade back up. For this we will use the “Pincher” a.k.a “Envelope Tool”
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By clicking your mouse you will create little dots. You will be able to “duck”/“envelope”/“fade”/“decrease” the music levels
Where to upload your podcasts for free….
• Audio Podcasts– www.gcast.com
• Phone In• No ads
– www.podomatic.com– www.odeo.com
Additional Resources
• Sounds & Sound Effects• http://www.findsounds.com/ • http://www.smartsound.com/ • http://www.naturesongs.com/ • http://soundamerica.com/ • Videos• http://www.kitzu.org/• http://www.archive.org/
index.php• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
index.html• Pictures• www.pics4learning.com
• Music• www.garageband.com• http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/• http://ccmixter.org/• Speeches and Narrations• http://www.historychannel.com/
speeches/archive1.html • http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
timeline/ • http://www.archive.org/index.php• www.librivox.org• www.gutenberg.org• http://creativecommons.org/audio
In addition to the great resources provided by Discovery streaming these other resources are exemplary media sites.
Listen Up
• Classroom Examples– Room 208 (http://bobsprankle.com/blog/)– Radio Willow Web
(http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/)– TechSavvy Girls
(http://web.mac.com/tntnzing/iWeb/techsavvygirlz/Podcasts/Podcasts.html)
• Teachers Sharing– Women of Web 2.0
(http://www.womenofweb2.com/) – Teach42 (http://www.teach42.com/) – Grammar Girls (http://grammar.qdnow.com/)