Working+with+Audio

=Lesson 4 Working with Audio=

Goals:
 * Students will review information gathered about alcohol and addiction
 * Students will practice basic audio editting
 * Students will practice pulling out pertinent, meaningful, relevant information

Activities > >> Resources: Download Audacity Software **audacity**.sourceforge.net/ (note: to export as MP3 you must also download and install LAME plug in) Audacity Tutorials: [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html] Audio File Types: http://www.fileinfo.net/filetypes/audio Summarize Key Points http://writesite.cuny.edu/projects/keywords/summarize/hand2.html Planning a PSA (belongs in upcoming lessons.. move later) http://www.oli.org/education_resources/attachments/9_12assign.pdf
 * Teacher Prep Work (download audio files from previous lessons for use prior to lesson, splice them into 10 minute sections and make sure you have enough different files for each team to work with)
 * Assign students to work in teams of 2 (make sure you have "earphone splitters)
 * Discuss file extensions and audio formats (including common audio extensions)
 * Review MP3, WAV, WMA, AUP, MIDI, and proprietory formats
 * Turning on and Hiding File Extensions
 * Tools / Folder Options / View / uncheck Hide Extensions for Known File types
 * Review the different between a player, icon, and editing software
 * Review changing the default program that opens a file
 * Right Click / Chose Program / (pick a program) (check the box -'always use the selected program to open this type of file)
 * Examine the quality of the sound clips from the Digital Voice Recorders and those from Audacity
 * Introduce Audacity (free open source sound editing program)
 * Demonstrate common tools on Smart Board
 * Using Audacity File of yesterdays lecture demonstrate the following features about)
 * Practice the player toolbar (play rewind fast forward stop pause)
 * Select tool (I beam) making the selection longer (drag pointer finger)
 * Playing only the selection (spacebar)
 * EDIT / SPLIT or Duplicate
 * Rename a track
 * Move a track (horizontally and vertically)
 * Save As
 * Project file
 * MP3
 * Wav
 * Multiple Tracks
 * project / Import Audio
 * Practice Exercise
 * Each group is assigned an sound clip to analyze
 * They should create one or two sound bytes that capture a stat, message, etc from yesterdays lecture
 * Select
 * Edit / Split
 * Name tracks
 * Save Project
 * Export as MP3
 * Save all files to the folder of you OR your partner (export the final short mp3's to the "Finished soundbytes folder"
 * Each student should write in the text from the soundbyte to their "Ask an Expert" Worksheet and circle or highlight it
 * Differentiation Activity
 * Small group workshops to those who would like to practice
 * Recording with Audacity and a microphone
 * Recording with Digital Voice Recorders
 * Downloading audio from Digital Voice Recorders

Check out Ms. deLaBruere's Lesson on Using Music in Podcast for access to Free Music and More http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/podcasting_in_education/music?wpid=703795