audacity: to improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills
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Audacity: To Improve Listening,
Speaking, Reading, and Writing Skills
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What is it?
• An audio recording and editing program
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Possible uses…• Conducting interviews
– Oral history• Students ask follow-up questions (listening and speaking)• Interview recorded through Audacity• Increased student engagement and interest in writing• Students will be writing more, because they will have
clearer more focused ideas.• The purpose and audience for writing will be clear and
motivating.• Students will gain a resonating voice that will build
confidence in their writing.• This will be an eye-opening experience of the perspectives
their peers have on the subject.
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Sample Student Work
• Audio for written work• Student written work
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Possible uses…
• Creating audio books– Reading component
• Teachers model.• Students can show pronunciation.• Students are asked to read with expression.• Students can listen to themselves.
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Possible uses…• Conducting interviews
– Oral history• Students ask follow-up questions (listening and speaking)• Interview recorded through Audacity• Increased student engagement and interest in writing• Students will be writing more, because they will have
clearer more focused ideas.• The purpose and audience for writing will be clear and
motivating.• Students will gain a resonating voice that will build
confidence in their writing.• This will be an eye-opening experience of the perspectives
their peers have on the subject.
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AudacityAudacity
How To Have Fun With Soundby “Audacitydemo”
This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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To Open AudacityTo Open Audacity
• Go to the folder where Audacity is installed. On Windows this is usually C:\Program Files\Audacity. On Mac, this is usually your Applications folder.
• Double-click audacity.exe (Windows) or Audacity.app (Mac) to launch Audacity.
• On a Windows Network, open Application Explorer
• Click All
• Launch Audacity
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If not on computer…
• Free download from: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Recording SoundRecording Sound
Click on the buttons inside the red box to find out whatthey do.
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Editing SoundEditing Sound
Click on the buttons inside the red box to find out whatthey do.
These tools are explained in more detail in the following slides.
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Selection ToolSelection Tool
• Make sure the Selection ToolSelection Tool is selected
• Use the Mouse and highlight the sound on the track you want to edit or delete
Highlighted Area
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Envelope ToolEnvelope Tool
• Make sure the Envelope ToolEnvelope Tool is selected – blue lines will appear
• Drag the Blue lines in or out to change the volume of the whole track
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Envelope Tool #2Envelope Tool #2
• Where I clicked to move in the line, white circles appear
• The volume will no longer be a straight line meaning the volume will change.
• Click inside the blue line near the white circle
Click Here
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Zoom ToolZoom Tool
• Make sure the ZoomZoom tool is selected
• Keep clicking until you are zoomed in as close as you want to be
• Click on the track with the magnifying glass
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Drawing ToolDrawing Tool
• You need to have zoomed in very close. AudacityAudacity will let you know if you have zoomed in enough.
• Using the DrawingDrawing tool you can move the individual handles
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Timeshift ToolTimeshift Tool
• The TimeshiftTimeshift tool is for when you have more than one trackmore than one track
• Move the track to where you want
• Make sure the Timeshift ToolTimeshift Tool is selected
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Recording Some SoundRecording Some Sound
• Press RecordRecord – to start recording
• Press StopStop – to stop recording
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Playing SoundPlaying Sound
• Click Skip to StartSkip to Start – to put the cursor at the beginning of the sound or clickclick where you want to start from
• Click PlayPlay
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Importing SoundImporting Sound
• FileFile >
• Select the sound you want and OpenOpen
ImportImport > AudioAudio
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Deleting SoundDeleting Sound
• Using the Selection ToolSelection Tool select the sound you want to delete
• Press the DeleteDelete key on your keyboard
Selected Area
that will be
deleted
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Lets Have Some FunLets Have Some Fun
• To have fun with the sound, select EffectEffect
• Play around with the settings for each effect to see what they do
• Select an Effect from the menu
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Exporting to an audio fileExporting to an audio file
If creating a PodcastPodcast for the internet, export as MP3MP3.
To burn to an audio CD or use your sound in Movie Movie Maker, Maker, export asexport as WAVWAV..
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What Else Can I Do?What Else Can I Do?
Other ideas for classroom usage?!Other ideas for classroom usage?!