Podcasting

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Please have **Audacity** and the **LAME MP3** encoder installed on you laptop before April 25th to be certain that the software is working properly. Software downloads are listed below. All participants must bring a **headset microphone** to this workshop.This workshop will be **hands-on**, with a focus on understanding Audacity software components and the creation of educational podcasts.======

Resources

 * [|How to Podcast] - This is the home of the **free podcast tutorial** that will take your podcast from concept to launch fast and for minimal cost."
 * Grazing for Digital Natives>>podcastingworkshop - A comprehensive wiki with many useful resources to help keep you up to date with 21 century learning tools.
 * [|Tutorials - Audacity Wiki] - This page is a collection of Tutorials both on an off the Wiki, giving step-by-step guidance on performing common tasks using Audacity. The Tutorials include ringtones, removing vocals, podcasting, creating loops and various others concerned with preparing your work for export to audio files or CDs.
 * [|Audacity Wiki Home Page] - This is the **Audacity Wiki,** a public resource containing tips, tricks and information about Audacity and digital audio. Anyone can edit pages to make them more useful or relevant. Click [|here] for help with Wiki editing.
 * [|25 Tools: Audacity] - These are the 25 key FREE tools in your [|core toolset]. Each Tool activity comprises a number of short, simple tasks to help you find out more about the technology behind each tool, the tool itself and why it is so popular, how to try out the tool and reflect on its use for your own teaching and learning and for productivity and performance support. Many of the tool activities are inter-related, so you will also be using other tools for different tasks.
 * [|Penn State Audacity Help Page -] - Educational Podcasting at Penn State University.

    media type="file" key="virtual haircut.mp3"
 * **Virtual Haircut** - Get a haircut while listening to this .mp3 file. Use a stereo headset to listen to this Podcast that will demonstrate right channel and left channel audio recording.


 * [[file:introaudacity.pdf|Intro to Audacity]]
 * [[file:How to Use Audacity.pdf|How to Use Audacity]]
 * [[file:audacity%5Ftips%5Ftricks%5Fimport%5Fexport.pdf|Audacity Tips and Tricks]]

Downloads

 * [|The Audacity Homepage] - Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
 * [|LAME MP3 encoder] - Allows Audacity to export MP3 files.