A brief powerpoint overview of why we should use Audacity in education as well as links to additional lessons and resources.

1. USING
AUDACITY
ETEC 523 - ED LARA, KATHY LEWIS AND
FELISA ISAKSON

2. AUDACITY FEATURES
• Record audio to single track
• Multi Track Editing and Mixing
• Basic to complex editing capabilities

3. REASONS TO USE AUDACITY
• FREE and Open Source
• Fairly easy to learn
• Applications very similar to other audio editing programs
• Updated often, good online discussion boards
Audacity Wiki Home Page - http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki

4. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

5. TO RECORD AND
PLAYBACK
Similar to other
recording features:
- Pause, Play, Stop,
Rewind to
beginning,
Forward to end,
Record
Recording shown as a
waveform
- Useful to find silences,
pauses and noise to be
edited out

6. VIDEO TUTORIAL
AND CLASS ACTIVITY

7. LESSONS AND RESOURCES
10 Great ways to use Audacity with your Students:
http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/08/10-great-ways-to-use-audacity-with-
your-students/
Audacity Lesson Plans:
http://www.makeandbreakeducation.com/category/audacity-lesson-plans/
Audacity Lesson Plan – Tell a Story Using Foley Sound Effects
http://www.freeaudacitytutorial.com/audacity-lesson-plan-tell-story-sound-
effects/

8. *“Podsafe”:
Sounds that are safe to use
･Wikipedia: Podsafe
･www.podsafeaudio.com/
･http://www.freemusicarchive.org/
･http://www.quietamerican.org/
･
Slide info taken from slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/duncanmm/audacity-and-audio-editing

9. Online Audacity
tutorials
Educause’s screencast tutorial:
http://www.educause.edu/Screencasts/Audacity/Untitled.html
Daniel James’s tutorial:
http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/toots/audacity/
Hamilton High School CSLA Presentation – Using Audacity
Slide info taken from slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/duncanmm/audacity-and-audio-editing