HTS09+Audacity+Guided+Lab

=Audacity Guided Lab=

Jason Neiffer, Facilitator
Welcome to the Audacity Guided Lab at Helena Tech Stuff '09!



__**The Rules**__

 * This is an open environment, so I encourage you to ask questions, make comments about your own experiences or direct the conversation wherever you perceive it needs to go.
 * You are free to explore any website longer than we do as a group and use this time how you see fit. However, make every effort to not distract the group or hold side conversations out of respect of me and your colleagues.
 * This is a "HANDS ON" lab, so we will start with a bit of instruction and then allow you to play with the tools. Our goal is to come up with a playable audio clip by the end of this morning, hopefully involving recorded speech and an audio track.
 * Have fun. :)

__**Technologies at Work at this Workshop**__

 * I asked you to use Firefox today as the best browser for modern web browsing. Firefox was the first to utilize tab browsing, which is critical functionality for advanced, organized web browsing. I will demonstrate. :) For teachers in the room, I have begun teaching basic browsing technique to my students in classes with a lot of success. Consider implementing basic computer instruction at the start of each unit... it is a time well spent that often saves time later!
 * This workshop page is hosted on a Wiki, my preferred platform for workshop session notes. The HTS planning committee was very interested in setting this standard for district workshops as an alternative to paper handouts. They are easy to update, easy to edit, easy to create collaborative space and most importantly, [|Wikispaces] offers [|free wikis to K-12 educators] for advanced features. This wiki will be here forever and ever so you do not need to take notes about specific links, nor do you need this information on paper. It is important to me that when possible, we move away from needless paper handouts.
 * All annotated screen shots were captured and notated using the excellent software application [|Jing]. The free version allows for easy capturing and annotating of still shots or you can take videos that screen capture. It integrated very well with Wikispaces. I purchased the $14.95 upgrade to Jing pro, which is worth every penny.

**Yay Audacity!**

 * Audacity is free, open source software available for the Mac, Windows and Linux. Despite its status as free software, don't be confused! It is extraordinarily powerful and the choice of many media professionals!

Download [|here]!**


 * Download LAME for Windows [|here].**

**Audacity Basics**




Audacity Guides for Later from Boise State University
media type="custom" key="4028971"

media type="custom" key="4028987"

"Podcast Safe" Audio
[|Podcast Safe Audio] [|Music Alley] [|Sound Effects]



Other Resources for the Audio Recording Masses

 * [|Audacity Manual and Tutorials]: from the Audacity community
 * [|Podcasting Resources from Wes Fryer]