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This is the repository page for links to materials prepared, collected, and reviewed for content on using and creating brief (3-5 minutes) audioclips for classes.
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Blog posting about using audioclips on the technology-escapades blog.

Using Audioclips

• Narrated PowerPoint 4:54 min:sec without Articulate interface explanation (Articulate Presenter format)
• Slides and speakers' notes (pdf format)
• Audio only (mp3 format)

Creating Audioclips

• Narrated PowerPoint 9:48 min:sec without Articulate interface explanation (Articulate Presenter format)
• Slides and speakers' notes (pdf format)
• Audio only (mp3 format) - coming soon

Narrative Information

• Audioclip Wikispace
• Audioclip TiddlyWiki

Links to sites described in presentation:

• Sloan C's effective practice highlighting West Virginia University's use of audioclips
• Learning Circuits' Trend paper on Podcasting in Academic and Corporate Learning
• Bridge Ratings Industry Update - The Podcasting Outlook

Additional Useful Sites:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education's How to Podcast Campus Lectures
• Michigan State University's Pedagogy and Techniques: Online Course Content: Audio
• Evaluating podcasts for teaching and learning
• Discussion of podcasts and their role in learning
• Improving quality and accessibility of podcasts

Recording Audioclips with Audacity:
Audacity is a free software program that can be downloaded to computers to capture audio clips. It is cross-platform and can be used on Windows Operating System (OS) or Macintosh OS computers.
Once you download and install Audacity, you need to also download the lame encoder. The lame encoder permits you to save files in mp3 format, making them playable on devices (such as PDAs and iPods and other players).
Here are a couple of brief (3-5 minute) and excellent tutorials about using Audacity from SeeItDoItTV.

• Audacity Tutorial One - How to record your first podcast using Audacity.
• Audacity Tutorial Two - How to edit and enhance your audio (Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together and change the volume speed or pitch of a recording).
• A tutorial from How to Podcast.

Find this and other helpful how to brief clips at these sites:

• YouTube
• TeacherTube - search for user ck9russell
• MERLOT

While you're at those sites, get involved in the conversations and see what other resources are available for your use and learning!