1. Intro into Voice/Audio Recording

2. Create Graphic Organizer (5 Ws + H Question Stems) What Who Where/ When Why How Audacity How What Who Where/Where Why 12

3. What It is a audio editor and voice recorder Free download Found on All CMS systems (There are other programs (apps) such “Easy Voice Recorder” downloadable and ready to be used with various technology equipment)

4. Who Teachers Parents Students

5. When/Where In classrooms/home/wherever you wanted to record/edit audio

6. Why? Ability to Complete Read Aloud for Assessments and students can pace themselves To accommodate Exceptional Children (EC), English Second Language (ESL)

7. Why? Increase our students digital literacy Add/Edit Audio Clips Class presentations Podcasting Students /Teachers Important Notes from Your Lectures to post on your Wiki/Edmodo (Ticket of the Door)

8. How  Record  Edit  Export & Import

9. How to Record 1. Open Audacity- From our main CMS computer screen (click Start | Programs | Audacity) 2. You should see this (Images and Information The LSS Quick Guide to Audacity)

10. To Record 1.Click RECORD. 2.If you want to pause while recording click Pause. To continue recording on the same track, click PAUSE. 3.When you are done recording, click STOP. (Images and Information The LSS Quick Guide to Audacity)

11. To Edit 1.Click and drag to select the audio that you want to modify. 2. Select an option from the Edit menu. Edit Menu Options include:  Cut, Copy, and Paste  Trim (delete all audio except the selection)  Delete (the selected audio) 1.Click and drag to select the audio that you want to delete. 2. Press backspace or delete to delete this section of audio the gray bar shows that this audio has been selected (Images and Information The LSS Quick Guide to Audacity)

12. Save & Export File Save Project As (Title) Recommendations (save as.mp3) Small compressed file Works on most media players Export 1. Click File and choose Export as MP3 2. Choose a destination and a name for your file. 3. Click OK. (Images and Information The LSS Quick Guide to Audacity)

13. Save & Export 4. For the format, we usually choose ID3v1 (more compatible). We have not had any problems with either format. 5. Enter the recording information (optional). 6. Click “OK” 7. Close Audacity (Images and Information The LSS Quick Guide to Audacity)

14. Import into Edmodo/Powerpoint Done through hyperlinking (within a document/powerpoint Download your saved mp3 file

15. References/Resources Free Download of Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Quick Tutorial Manual http://lss.wisc.edu/~doug (Images and Information The LSS Quick Guide to Audacity)