Mrs. Sheila Boyd First Grade Teacher Everett Area Elementary School

I was asked to share Audacity and how to use it in your classrooms. I use Audacity in my classroom on a regular basis. I think it’s a great teaching tool. Today, I hope you will learn how to record, edit, and share sound files. First, for those unfamiliar with Audacity, it is an open-source recording program that is quite powerful.

 Record live audio  Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CD’s  Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, or AIFF sound files  Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together  Change the speed or pitch of a recording  And more

 Audacity: Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Audacity View

 Podcasting: Powerful and Practical: Audacity is the perfect tool for podcasting

 In a Intermediate grade general music class, you might use Audacity to record multiple tracks for a video. In this example, students begin by heading to and use the online mixer to mix their sounds, using the soundbank provided. They record this in Audacity, then record their own voices reading a story they’ve written. Using the editing tools in Audacity, students then put the two parts together, and they’ve now created their own soundtrack to use with their Animoto video, which they’ve created using their own pictures. Neat project!

 Social Studies  Math  Language Arts  Foreign Language  Music  Science  Other Uses

Social StudiesForeign Language  Support Statements  Interviews  Description Clips  Teacher Audio  Students Response  Student Audio

MathLanguage Arts  Procedures for solving a problem  Homework assignment podcast  Reader’s Theater  Study Notes  Summarizing Main Ideas  Narrate an event from each character’s point of view.

MusicScience  Record  Demonstration  Tag for musical events  Lab Directions  Note Taking

Record Speeches Record sound for PowerPoint slides  To provide evidence of learning, and upload to Glogster ( an online poster tool) to shaer with a wider audience.  To enhance any presentation

Record compositions Record soundtracks for animations  Written compositions or class singing to share with others  Sing songs for projects about 1. human body 2. insects 3. grammar etc.

Promote reading development: Record reading books. (Helps emergent readers) Create sound stories for images using free sound effects websites. You can use a creative commons Flickr photos as your source of “sound-rich” images.

 Students write a story.  Read it on audacity  Listen to the story for expression  Download the story on school web page for parents and grand parents to hear. (Only use the student’s first name for privacy.)

 Use audacity to advertise products the school produces to support service learning for their advertising unit.

 Record kids speaking in one of their language classes then upload to Voki to create speaking Avatars. Can be done in Intermediate or High School classes.

 Class or School Announcements  Display of Student Work  Help Sessions for absent students  New Student Orientation ( Walking Podcast)  New Parent Orientation  Limited only to your imagination

Thank you so much for attending my session!

Mrs. Sheila Boyd First Grade Everett Area Elementary School