Audacity

WOW! The audacity podcast was tough! I really enjoyed searching for all the music on YouTube then converting it to audio. I have been looking for a program that allows you to do such an activity. I had little trouble trimming the songs and moving the position in the podcast. When I began to run into trouble was adding my voice to the audio, for some reason I just could not find the big red recording dot in the middle of the page. After I found it I tried to let it record throughout the entire audio which was a terrible idea so I had to redo the recording which went by smoothly. I then ran into trouble downloading the Lame_encoder and finding it on my computer. Despite knowing that it was located under my programs I could not find my programs. Finally, when that was completed it was smooth sailing from there on out. In the end, I really enjoyed this activity and would be eager to try it in the classroom. As a professional, I could see using this activity in the classroom to teach music appreciation to students by lecturing in between songs, but also I thought this would be a good way to teach poetry or have students write there own poetry to the beat of a song then record their poems over the rhythm. I think this is a tool that could be used in web conferences too and this way other speakers, from all over the country could have their speeches recorded in the webcasts. This project defiantly could engage, facilitate, and inspire student learning and stated in the first NETS standard. If students were to find their own videos through both the benderconverter and youtube, then they could express songs, artists, or themes that greatly effect their lives. Modeling digital age work as in standard 3 is touched through this standard also because this was a very rigorous process for anyone educator to complete but once it has been completed once, a world of endless possibilities are opened.