Audacity PodOMatic

1. INTC 3610
Fall 2012

2.  ShareWare – FREE
 Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual
audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X,
GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
 You can use Audacity to:
◦ Record live audio.
◦ Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
◦ Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
◦ Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
◦ Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
◦ And more!

3.  Make an audio/radio advertisement –
◦ A third grade class is using in to advertise products the school
produces to support service learning for their Advertising unit.
 Promote language learning –
◦ Grade 4 - record kids speaking in one of their language classes
then upload to Voki to create speaking Avatars. Create Podcasts –
◦ limited only by your imagination. Celeste Hopkins and her Grade 2
students use Audacity to create podcasts of book reviews, reports
and poetry readings. Mr Balcom‘s students created music tracks
for their video podcasts. Find a need and get podcasting!
 Record speeches
◦ Grade 4 - to provide evidence of learning, and upload to Glogster
to share with a wider audience
 Promote reading development
◦ For emerging readers -- by recording kids reading books

4.  Create sound stories
◦ for images using free sound effects websites for various
school events
 Record sound for PowerPoint slides
◦ to enhance any presentation
 Record comments/opinions
◦ to load to a Voicethread at a later stage. This can be
useful if there are problems with multiple users on a
Voicethread or to save time.
 Record compositions
◦ or class singing to share with others (e.g. parents).
 Record soundtracks for animations
◦ Classroom project - animation project on the systems of
the human body.

5.  Podcasting - A podcast is just another mp3
file that you can play either on your computer
or any portable device like the Apple iPod or
Creative Zen. Podcasting refers to the entire
process of creating the podcast [audio],
editing and publishing to the web via RSS.
Podcasting requires a microphone and audio
editing software like Audacity or Adobe
Audition.

6. Video – Creating a Podcast in Podomatic.com
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMZQblsa
h5Q&feature=related

7.  PodOMatic
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=zL
OMw62KZmA

8. With an RSS feeder you can upload to itunes
and go global.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdyJPsa4
qe0&feature=relmfu