Notes on Recording and Saving Audio

Hello all! I have enjoyed perusing your comments about the status of your projects and look forward to seeing the further development of them! In our TIP session on Tuesday, I passed out a set of notes with basic instructions for recording audio using Audacity and for saving files to your First Class email account (so that they can accessed online).

I've made a few revisions to those notes and posted them as a  .pdf file here:

Notes on Audio Recording and Saving to First Class

For more in-depth instruction on using Audacity or Garage Band to record your audio files, be sure to check out Atomic Learning's tutorials. Audacity also provides help support at audacity.sourceforge.net/help/. Apple tutorials for Garage Band are at apple.com/support/garageband/.

Have fun with your projects! As always, if you run into a roadblock feel free to contact me.

How's it Going?

Please let us know how your T-I-P project is going. We ask all participants in the Blogging and Podcasting course to add a comment to this post on (1) your project idea and (2) any questions that may have arisen as you plan and begin your projects. Please include your name in your post.

Thanks for sharing!

Adding Audio Files to Your Blog

In our class tomorrow, we will be previewing some ways to record audio files.  Audio files are a great way to add interest to your blog.  Here is a little snippet to give you an idea about the possibilities!

Blogging Articles

Two articles recently showed up in my inbox about blogging. What great timing!

First, on January 7, 2009, an article entitled "How To: Start a Place-Based Blog" by Momo Chang. This article gives helpful suggestions (like get organized, find an audience, create a protocol, etc.) on setting up guidelines for your blog project that can help your blog succeed.

The next article was posted on January 13, 2009. Entitled "Writing for the World: Blogs Give Students an Audience" and written by Elena Aguilar, it offers an interview with Jessie Thaler, an eighth grade English teacher who is blogging with her students.

Both articles were published on Edutopia. Check them out, and while you're there, subscribe to Edutopia's FREE e-newsletter to get interesting articles in your inbox, too!