For tomorrow, students in my #WRT courses should have recorded a rough draft of themselves reading their #TIB essays. Given that we started this in class on Wednesday and now it's Sunday night, one student has posted her recording to her course page. I'm anticipating several questions later tonight. I'm trying something new with the audio recording. I'm aware that students have used software and sites along the lines of Jing and Audacity before, so I'm pushing them to try the technology part on their own BEFORE we have any tutorial in class. I'm looking for a carryover from their Intro course. These are some of the sites I'm expecting them to try out:
I'm wondering which students will go above and beyond to attempt to use technologies that can actually be embedded into their TIB page tabs. I know that the easiest option, but not always the best, is to record the TIB essays on the iPhone app and upload it as a file. IDEALLY, students will seek ways for their recordings to play directly from their page without the expectation of listeners downloading additional software to listen to their essays.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow!
LM
- Power Sound Editor: "Power Sound Editor Free is a visual audio editing and recording software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data. You can use Power Sound Editor Free to record your own music, voice, or other audio files, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and burn it on a CD, post it on the World Wide Web or e-mail it."
(Read more: Power Sound Editor Free - CNET Download.com) - Audacity: "Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It allows you to record live audio, converts tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. You also can cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together with Audacity. Built-in effects are given to remove static, hiss, hum or other constant background noises."
- Music Editor (Free version): MEF records from any audio source that can be plugged into your computer: live performances-interviews-conventional radio-vinyl records or tape players-microphones-mixers-electronic instruments.
- Ardour: "Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound."
I'm wondering which students will go above and beyond to attempt to use technologies that can actually be embedded into their TIB page tabs. I know that the easiest option, but not always the best, is to record the TIB essays on the iPhone app and upload it as a file. IDEALLY, students will seek ways for their recordings to play directly from their page without the expectation of listeners downloading additional software to listen to their essays.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow!
LM