t now I'm finishing some "We Were There" newscasts about Revolutionary War battles in South Carolina. I've never used video on an iPod in the classroom, but I would love to hear some more ideas about what other people are doing.…
odcasting? I've been using a mixture of edublogs/wordpress (blogging) and Garageband on the Mac / Audacity on the PC (podcasting). Some of the films we turned into podcasts are viewable on our site www.nwsclc.net.
It'd be really useful to share experiences and what works / didn't work so well!…
are a pure Mircosoft shop it would not be our first choice. I've been looking to use what we have in place of Garage Band. It looks like a combination of Audacity and Microsoft Movie Maker is the direction we will go.
I like your blog. Keep in touch.…
Added by John Patota at 5:48am on January 16, 2009
and inserting file in Crazy Talk? Also, I'm hoping that your book reviews are on TeacherTube; Nings are blocked. I just need a bit of help w/classroom management; only 45 minutes each week.…
rs with iMacs, with a number of different software apps.
I am very interested in adapting the smart phone into our use, though I haven't had the time to think it through yet!
Dan…
I have posted a sound file created using a podcast program called "propaganda" it is running at 2x speed within classroom 2.0, which means I sound funny. If you play the linked file within my last…
Added by gerry davis at 9:52am on September 14, 2007
turning off "noise suppression" (if it has it)
- position the boom so that the mic is just about level with the tip of your nose
- don't touch it while you're recording
This sounds like you're recording at too high a level. While this mp3 file doesn't appear to be clipping -- that's when it chops off the loudest sounds -- the waveform LOOKS like you used Audacity's Normalize filter. That takes the clipping out of the output file, but leaves the noise that clipping causes.
Try cranking the gain back a bit to make sure it's not clipping . In Audacity you can tell if it clips by the little red band that appears in the meter.
Of course, recording at a low level creates another problem and that's having too weak a signal. You can fix that by creating a .wav file of your voice track and running that through a tool called Levelator (http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator )
Then you can bring the output.wav file back into Audacity and mix the intro music, etc.
It also sounds like you didn't do *any* post production on this to do things like take out mis-speaks, clip out the 'um's or remove the lip clicks and smacks. You'll sound a lot better if you pay attention to those.
Oh, and if you save the audio *before* you render the final MP3 version, *always* save a .wav file version along with the .aup file. Use that .aup or .wav file to resume editing. Do NOT re-load the MP3 and edit that unless you have absolutely no choice. The MP3 file is a "lossy" format -- like jpeg for images -- and it throws away some information with each new save. (This is the bitter voice of experience talking.)
Finally, check out Gangplank there in Phoenix. I know a lot of those people and they'd be happy to help.…
our webpage. Here's my webpage (wiki) with the instructions for the conversion to MP3
http://saugusedtech.pbwiki.com/
In the sidebar on the right is a tab that says podcast directions. Hopefully you can find everything there. I like GCast because it has not adds (like podomatic) and can be easily embeded.
Arlene…
9 and 12, are saving for inexpensive acer laptops with the intent of dumping Vista and putting ubuntu on them right off.
Personally, I need to see better multimedia software. GIMP didn't do much for me--last I looked. Audacity is not bad.…