1. Recording Your Script and Creating Your Podcast
!!You are not finished until you have completed all steps on all of the slides up to and including Slide #15!!

2. If you have not recorded your script into your phone yet, then please go to Slide #3. No phone? Go to slide #18
If you have already recorded your script into your phone, then please go to:
Slide #4 if your phone is an iphone 6 or earlier
Slide #16 if your phone is an iphone 7 OR newer OR you have a Samsung

3. Recording Your Script Find a quiet place to record.
Open up your phone’s recording app.
When recording, remember:
Speak very clearly
Enunciate
Do not rush
Read your entire script, word for word

4. Creating Your Podcast
Step 1: Grab the cord with two green ends.

5. Creating Your Podcast
Step 2: Plug the cord into the blue jack in the back of the computer, then to your phone.

6. Creating Your Podcast
Step 3: Select “Mic In” Step 4: Make sure the volume on your phone is all the way up. Step 5: Open Audacity through programs by clicking on the Windows symbol in the bottom left hand corner of the computer screen. DO NOT OPEN AUDACITY THROUGH THE DESKTOP!!!

7. Creating Your Podcast
Step 6: Hit “RECORD” on Audacity. (Red Button) Step 7: Hit “PLAY” on your phone. Your audio recording will appear as a waveform in the work area. Step 8: When completed, you must press the yellow “STOP” button in Audacity.
“Record”
Press First
“Stop”
Press When Done

8. Creating Your Podcast
If you have recorded correctly, then your work area should look something like this:

9. Creating Your Podcast
Step 9: Save your podcast RIGHT NOW before doing anything else to it. To save:
Save it as an Audacity project by going to the FILE dropdown menu and choosing Save Project As…
Give it a name.
Make sure it saves as an “aup” file.
Drop it into your personal student folder.

10. Creating Your Podcast
Step 10: Go back and listen to your podcast in Audacity. **VERY IMPORTANT: When opening your podcast you must access it by opening the Audacity program first, then clicking on FILE and going to your student folder. IT WILL NOT WORK IF YOU GO TO YOUR FOLDER WITHOUT GOING THROUGH AUDACITY!!!

11. Editing Your Podcast
Check out the directions below to delete any unwanted noises and mistakes or to add effects.

12. Editing Your Podcast
Additional Things You Can Do…

13. Editing Your Podcast
Adding Effects and Music…

14. Exporting Your File As An MP3 File
Listen to your podcast to make sure it sounds exactly the way you want it to sound.
YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO CHANGE IT AFTER THIS NEXT STEP!!
To turn your file into an actual podcast, you will need to make it into an MP3.
Here’s how you do it:
Go to the FILE Dropdown Menu and choose EXPORT.
In the box that says “File Name:” rename it using LAST NAME then FIRST NAME Example: Smith John
In the box that says “Save as type:” you will scroll down to “MP3 Files” and select this.
!!!!!!!DO NOT hit “Save” yet!!
Go up to “Save in:” Scroll down to “Computer”, click on it and find the area where you normally save things at school. NOW SAVE IT.

15. Moving Your MP3 To Mr. Felton’s Drop Box
Follow the directions contained below:

16. Open Audacity through programs by clicking on the Windows symbol in the bottom left hand corner of the computer screen. DO NOT OPEN AUDACITY THROUGH THE DESKTOP!!!

17. Open up your recording on your cell phone and hold your phone right next to the speaker on the laptop.
Return to slide #7 and follow the rest of the directions from there.

18. Get a microphone from your teacher.
Plug it into the jack in the front of the computer.
Hit the button on the microphone…a green light will go on.

19. Open Audacity through programs by clicking on the Windows symbol in the bottom left hand corner of the computer screen. DO NOT OPEN AUDACITY THROUGH THE DESKTOP!!!

20. Creating Your Podcast
Hit “RECORD” on Audacity. (Red Button) Begin speaking your script into the microphone. Your audio recording will appear as a waveform in the work area. When completed, you must press the yellow “STOP” button in Audacity. Return to slide #8 and follow the rest of the directions from there.
“Record”
Press First
“Stop”
Press When Done