Audio Appreciation

I will admit it. I am definitely a newcomer to the world of Audacity and utilizing audio clips in the classroom. I was excited for the opportunity to complete this assignment because it forced me to use Audacity and play with all of the features that I never had before. I always had good intentions of incorporating audio into various places within my lessons and classroom however, it just never came together.

Audacity was so simple to use that I would recommend it to anyone. I have never used any type of audio editing software and I was able to literally open the program, hit record, and begin. I was that easy. I then played around with the cutting and pasting features to customize my recordings. I knew that I wanted to make this project something that I could actually use in my classroom right now. So, I decided to change an upcoming assignment, that was a pencil and paper worksheet, into an interactive audio that students could listen to on the MP3 player in my classroom. This way they could actually do this assignment in a center while I work with other students in groups.

The last thing I did was add background music to the clip. My district subscribes to a royalty free music clip website called Soundzabound. It was very easy for me to download a music clip and add it to my audio in Audacity.