Audio

Written by Sean Cullen

Learn

• How to import and organise digital audio.
• How to capture audio from different sources
• How to edit captured digital audio
• How to export created digital audio in different formats suitable for media players
• How to comply with copyright and intellectual property laws

Create/use/apply

• Record interviews with members of the Digital Leaders programme
• Create a sonic tag (e.g. the roar of the MGM lion or Direct line bugle call) by either recording a piece of music you have created or by a synthesis of existing elements of audio files

Share and showcase

• Create an audio help file to explain DRM (digital rights management) to be put on school website/VLE
• Create a radio advertisement for the Digital Leaders program

Example Scheme of Work - this will depend on students' previous knowledge and expertise.

• Week 1: Copyright and intellectual property laws
• Week 2: Import and organise digital audio
• Week 3: Capture audio from different sources
• Week 4: Edit captured digital audio
• Week 5: Export created digital audio in different formats suitable for media players
• Week 6: Share and showcase

Useful links

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Digital Rights Management http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDuSiX_gR0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRfX2gPwXMo

Sonic branding (sonic tag ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_branding A crash course in sonic branding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrY8yRwyDL0 Sonic branding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMorarsTZw