Audacity


Audacity 

 

 

Objective: Proofreading

 

Web tool: Audacity

 

Brief description of  tool:  Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

 

Use of tool: Record students' blog writing on a podcast. Students love recording their own voices. It puts them in control. There are other recording devices that could be used but this is a free tool. 

 

How it facilitates learning: Gives students a new technique to proofread that helps them really pay attention and hear what they have written.

 

Blog posts: 

 

 

Additional strategies to use with students to facilitate learning and thinking: 

 

 

How To:

 

Audacity Tutorial : How to Record and Edit Audio with Audacity from Guides and tutorials.com

Audacity and LAME for MP3 Video from You Tube.com

Record it with Audacity: Techtorial and printable version of tutorial from Education World

A Visual Guide to Podcasting from Seeitdoit.tv

 

(Four are provided here - choose the one that fits your learning style best. For this lesson you only need to learn the "how to record" and convert to MP3 sections)

 

Additional Resources