Recording+and+Editing+Audio

= Recording and Editing Audio = **(SlideCast and Podcasting)**

Overview:
In this lab, you will learn how to take advantage of an open source application called Audacity to record and edit audio. Please note that you will need access to a microphone to complete the lab. We'll also learn what podcasts are and what distinguishes them from other forms of audio/video. Second, we'll create our own brief podcasts ourselves!

Objectives:

 * 1) To familiarize yourself with the basic features of Audacity as an example of sound editing software.
 * 2) To record and edit your own audio clips.
 * 3) To upload and store your audio files on a server.
 * 4) To learn what podcasts are and how they work, including working knowledge of key terminology.
 * 5) To know where one might look to find podcast to listen/watch.
 * 6) To create one's own podcast using free applications.

Audacity
In addition to being free, there are a couple of other benefits to using Audacity for sound recording and editing. The first is that it is cross-platform, meaning that you can run it on both Macs and PCs. The second benefit is that there are lots of tutorials on Audacity already on the web so you won't need to create your own resources if you use it with your students.


 * Some resources that you might consider include:**
 * 1) The Audacity Wiki Page includes information about Audacity including tutorials and tipsheets.
 * 2) How-to-podcast-tutorial.com - Jason Van Orden has a pretty thorough set of resources that will show you how to download and install Audacity and the LAME encoder (needed to covert files to .mp3) as well as how to set up, record, and edit using the program.
 * Specifically, focus your exploration of the Audacity resources on the following topics:**
 * 1) **Downloading and installing Audacity and the LAME MP3 encoder**
 * 2) **Adjust your microphone (recording) levels if necessary**
 * 3) **Record your voice**
 * 4) **Delete or move sections of audio**
 * 5) **Altering volume levels**
 * 6) **Importing an audio clip (e.g., music)**
 * 7) **Soundsnap - Search for special sound effects**
 * 8) **[|Opsound] – Free music**
 * 9) **[|Garageband] – Free music**
 * 10) **Export audio in MP3 format**
 * Uploading Files to a Server**

As MSU students, you have access to server space as well. All students at MSU have one hundred fifty (150) megabytes of storage space on MSU servers. You can access your server space in a variety of ways.

On an on campus Windows machine, you can access your space via NetDrive by right clicking on the red letter N on the lower righthand corner, scrolling up to Novell login, and entering in your netid and password. Once you've entered that information, click on the advanced tab and enter in the following information:

Tree: MSU-NDS Context: People.msu Server: netdrive.montclair.edu

Click ok, and you will be logged into NetDrive. To access your space, go up to My Computer and double click into the drive marked by your netid (last name, first initial and a number). To log out of NetDrive, right click on the red letter N, and scroll to Disconnect Network Drive, in the resulting dialog box, select all of the drives there, and click disconnect. You are then logged out.

For a MAC computer, or for off campus use, you can access your drives by going through NetStorage. NetStorage is, simply put, a website version of NetDrive.

Go to https://netdrive.montclair.edu/NetStorage/ (with a capital N and S) preferably with Firefox, though Internet Explorer and Safari should also work. Once you've connected, you will be prompted for your Netid and password, and your drives will be marked by a folder formatted as such: DriveN@Netid. Within that folder you can modify, edit, upload, and download your content via the small menu bar directly above the file list. Logging out is as simple as clicking the logout button and exiting your web browser.


 * __WEB-BASED STORAGE__**

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 * 1) Set up account
 * 2) UPLOAD Document
 * 3) Copy WEB ADDRESS

Synchronize an .mp3 file to your previous 21st Century presentation and embed to your blog.
 * Performance Task: **


 * 1) Upload your Powerpoint presentation to Slideshare. (Download your Zoho presentation as a .ppt)
 * 2) Create an .mp3 file to sync with your slides.
 * 3) Go to Edit Your Slideshare. Select Create Slidecast. Upload .mp3 file.
 * 4) Synchronize audio to slides.
 * 5) Save and publish. Embed into blog. (Delete old one and replace with this one.)

__ [|MyPodCast.com] __
MyPodCast offers a free podcast with unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth and free templates for your podcast.

Craft your own audio file (Radio Show): Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann
 * 1) Create a PodCast.
 * 2) Create an account.
 * 3) Choose a name for your PodCast.
 * 4) Download MyPodcast Recorder.
 * 5) Create Audio with Recorder. Save and Publish. Will appear on MyPodCast blog.
 * 6) Can listen and download.
 * 7) Right click and Copy Link Location and link it to your blog.
 * Performance Task: **

Topic – Should schools ban technology access, e.g. cell phones/PDA, Facebook, MySpace, and other electronic social networks?
 * Use the resources provided to you.
 * Support your argument with these examples.
 * Answer these possible questions in your monologue –
 * "To what extent should teachers be technologically literate?" And what are the consequences for not achieving a certain level of technological literacy? And how does technological //literacy// relate to technology //integration// ?
 * Should schools protect students from the dangers of technology? Or should do the benefits of technology outweigh the costs?