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Podcasting with Audacity

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Podcasting with Audacity

/ What is it?

/ How does it work?

/ How do I get it?

/ Uploading Audio file to Wordpress Blog

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What is it?

/ Sound editing program/ Open source software and can be

downloaded for free. / Used with Windows Operating Systems,

Mac, and Linux among others.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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What can it do?

/ Audacity can be used for many different purposes./ Recording/ Podcasting/ Import and edit sound files./ Export sound files in many different formats including (mp3, wav, etc.)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Podcasting

/ Create podcasts to be attached to blogs, wikis, and websites.

/ Podcasts are uploaded sound or video files that can be accessed through common media players from the internet.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Recording

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Importing and Editing Sound

/ Import sounds and mix into one track.

/ Layer music and dialog into one file.

/ Special effects: amplify, normalise, fade in, fade out

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Exporting files

/ mp3.

/ wav.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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How does it work?

/ Same as Microsoft Word (shortcuts).

/ Edit with just a few clicks

/ Import music to combine with dialog.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Podcasting Ideas:

/ Vocabulary words and definitions / Audio books / Student writing pieces / Language learning/ practise/ Interviews/ Lesson how-to’s/ Comprehension questions

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Podcasting Ideas

/ Lectures/ Complicated lessons: Math, Physics/ Catch-up for frequent absentees/ Student projects/ Questions from the lecture/ Foreign language dialect/ Musical Pieces/ Fluency

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/ Go to: http://audacity.sourceforge.net// Go to the download tab.

/ To download LAME mp3 encoder:/ Go to: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar// Scroll down until you see the link for Audacity for

Windows: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/Lame_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe

/ When you download the LAME mp3 encoder, you will need to save it to your computer, find it in your programs and click on it to extract the correct file.

/ Then, when you export from Audacity as an mp3 the first time, it will ask you to find that file and attach it. You will only need to do this one time and it will be set up indefinitely after that.

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Audacity Website

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LAME Website

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Copyright Information

/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net// http://lame.buanzo.com.ar// Audacity is copyright © 2010 members of the

Audacity development team./ Go to

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 for more audacity copyright information

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Other Websites Worth Noting…

/ For other free software: http://sourceforge.net/

/ For free instrumental music downloads: http://freeplaymusic.com/

/ For podcasting ideas: http://epnweb.org// For my wiki page:

www.grasmickswiki.pbworks.com