Audio
From EdFutures
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