Working+with+Audio

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 * Session 2 - Working with Audio**
 * Assign students to work in teams of 2 (make sure you have "earphone splitters)
 * Discuss file extensions and audio formats (including common audio extensions)
 * Review MP3, WAV, WMA, AUP, MIDI, and proprietory formats
 * Turning on and Hiding File Extensions
 * Tools / Folder Options / View / uncheck Hide Extensions for Known File types
 * Review the different between a player, icon, and editing software
 * Review changing the default program that opens a file
 * Right Click / Chose Program / (pick a program) (check the box -'always use the selected program to open this type of file)
 * Examine the quality of the sound clips from the Digital Voice Recorders and those from Audacity
 * Introduce Audacity (free open source sound editing program)
 * Demonstrate common tools on Smart Board
 * Using Audacity File of yesterdays lecture demonstrate the following features about)
 * Practice the player toolbar (play rewind fast forward stop pause)
 * Select tool (I beam) making the selection longer (drag pointer finger)
 * Playing only the selection (spacebar)
 * EDIT / SPLIT or Duplicate
 * Rename a track
 * Move a track (horizontally and vertically)
 * Save As
 * Project file
 * MP3
 * Wav
 * Multiple Tracks
 * project / Import Audio
 * Practice Exercise
 * Each group is assigned an sound clip to analyze
 * They should create one or two sound bytes that capture a stat, message, etc from yesterdays lecture
 * Select
 * Edit / Split
 * Name tracks
 * Save Project
 * Export as MP3
 * Save all files to the folder of you OR your partner (export the final short mp3's to the "Finished soundbytes folder"

Resources You can download Audacity Software for free [|http://**audacity**.sourceforge.net/] (note: to export as MP3 you must also download and install LAME plug in) Audacity Tutorials: [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html] Audio File Types: http://www.fileinfo.net/filetypes/audio