<p> Adding Sound to Your Online Course with Audacity</p><p>Rodger Hergert ION Faculty Summer Institute May 17, 2005</p><p> Getting Started with Audacity 1. Download Audacity at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ 2. Install Audacity by clicking “Next” a lot. 3. Download the LAME encoder (converts files to mp3) at http://mitiok.free.fr/ (LAME encoder for Windows) http://spaghetticode.org/lame/ (LAME encoder for Mac) 4. Put the file lame_enc.dll in an easy to find location (you’ll be asked to find this file the first time you convert a file to MP3).</p><p> Recording in Audacity 1. Plug in your microphone. 2. Open the program. 3. Press “record” to start and “stop” to end.</p><p>4. Save the file (it will be in .aup format) with a meaningful name.</p><p> Convert to MP3 1. To adjust the quality and file size, go to File>Preferences>File Format and change the bit rate setting at the bottom of the window. 56 seems to be a good setting for decent quality and reasonable file size. A larger bit rate means better quality & larger file size. 2. Select File>Export as MP3… 3. Give the file a meaningful name and easy to find location and click Save. 4. Fill in the title, artist, etc. and click OK.</p><p> Deliver using pseudo-streaming 1. Open a basic text editor (Notepad or TextEdit). 2. Type the URL for the mp3 file. 3. Save as “filename.m3u” (not as .txt)</p><p>4. Upload to your web server and link to this file (rather than the .mp3 file directly) 5. For more info on pseudo-streaming, go to http://www.deliveryourmedia.com/article-audio-primer-5.html</p><p> Other resources for audio in education 1. The Promise of Podcasting - http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2005_03/index.asp 2. NCQTalk.com - http://www.ncqtalk.com (especially Episodes 1 & 6) 3. Michael Coghlan - http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/ http://www.learningtimes.org (free membership required) http://www.elearn.wa.edu.au/kt/edition05/html/npra_michael_coghlan.html</p><p>My contact info</p><p>Address: Rock Valley College 3301 North Mulford Rd. Rockford, IL 61114</p><p>E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]</p><p>Phone: 815-921-3456 URL: http://www.rvcmathguy.com</p>