1. “With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.” - Theodore H. White AUDACITY

2. AUDACITY Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder

3. Open Adobe Photoshop. Choose File > Open. Browse until you find your first alphabet photo.jpg image. Click OK. CREATING A PROJECT Open Audacity to begin. Select File>Open. Browse to find your audio file. Click Open.

4. EDITING THE AUDIO Hit the play button to listen to your recording. Pause the audio where you would like to begin your cut. Select the cut tool and click and drag over the section you want to delete. Click the delete key on your keyboard.Play Cut Tool

5. INSERTING SOUND BITES Choose File>Import>Audio. Select a sound bite from the stock audio file. Click Open.

6. INSERTING SOUND BITES Press the play button to listen to the two audio files together. Adjust the volume of the sound bite so the audio recording can be heard. The volume of the audio file may need to be adjusted also. Sound bite Volume Control

7. ADDING EFFECTS Decide which track you would like to add an effect to. Make sure the spot you want to add the effect to is selected on that track. Choose the desired effect from the drop down menu.

8. Choose Image > Mode > CMYK Color. SAVING YOUR PODCAST When finished select File > Export. Select WAV as the file type, save your recording as Podcast_Title_Final. Click save.