I created a very simple, two page PDF “Quickstart Guide to Audacity” for my podcasting workshop last night. I continue to tweak the online curriculum for that workshop each time I teach it: It remains online (and free to anyone) at http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/podcasting.
I love Audacity because it is free, cross-platform, simple to use, exports directly to MP3, and is very powerful! 🙂
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8 responses to “Audacity quickstart guide”
Wes,
You are awesome for sharing this! I was sharing Audacity with 2 other teachers today…they were both Science teachers wanting to integrate Audacity by means of letting their students write/record their own song/rap about genetics. We are looking forward to integrating Audacity in a number of our classrooms. We had a poetry slam today, and the top 3 poets will be recorded/podcasted by using Audacity!
This program ROCKS! Its free, a VERY small program , and easy to use. I have students downloading it at home now, so they can edit their “homework” away from school-they enjoy doing their homework!
[…] If you want an easy, free, cross-platform digital audio editor, Audacity might be just what you need. And over at Moving at the Speed of Creativity, Wesley Fryer has posted a nice little two-page Audacity quick start guide. Take a look if you’re interested. […]
[…] Audacity Tutorial for Podcasters December 5th, 2006 by Anna I know that many of us, use the free resource of Audacity to produce our podcasts, here is an excellent tutorial for anyone new to the podcasting world. What I love about this post is how it shows the power of Web2.0…..the power of social exchange, the way people share information. Podcasting is part of that process…it is a wonderful way of sharing your thoughts, your passion and helping others. Posted in General Link to this Entry […]
Thank you so much!
I’ve been using Audacity for a while (see link) but am venturing into students making assignments and getting qualifications from “making a report” rather than “writing a report” – because it’s activity, current and ‘real’ – guess what teh popularity of the method is!!!
[…] I’ll post some references for the Audacity workshop once it is polished. One thing I did find when googling around is there are lots of workshop documents, sites, and handouts labeled “tutorial” or “workshop” but usually are just screenshots pointing to buttons and controls (I am using Wes Fryer’s rather than making my own). […]
[…] So I am not sure if my materials are all that useful one page is mostly an outline of what we covered, the second page is a list of resources and other useful things like the Levelator. I did not have to make a handout for a reference to the software buttons and functions; I simply used Wes Freyer’s Audacity Quickstart Guide. […]
Greetings,
Thanks for the Audacity handout! We provide training on Audacity and podcasting to K12 educators and have produced a series of free narrated multimedia tutorials that we use in our training. They are available to anyone on our web site at GuidesandTutorials.com. See the following:
Audacity Tutorials
http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html
Podcasting Tutorials
http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/podcasting-tutorial.html
Thanks again for the handout.
— Ben
Wow! This is a brilliant site and one for me to link to. Many thanks for sharing.