This month, we had Tech Tuesday training available during teachers' conferences. This same session was also made available district-wide after school in hopes that this combination will offer more flexible technology training for our teachers.Anyway, the focus of the training this month was Audacity. This is a totally free and totally awesome program that basically offers the user a recording studio right on their computer, and it is so easy to use.
In the training, teachers learned the three basic steps:
- record,
- export,
- and share!
This program was immediately put to use by many of our teachers. One of the more popular ideas is to use the program to record oral tests for our students with special needs. Other ideas include leaving instructions for students with the substitute, creating audio books, having students practice reading fluency, emailing to students, and embedding into teacher blogs and websites. Recordings can even be created on your iPhone and converted for use in Audacity.
If you have an idea for using Audacity, please let me know, or if you would like help in learning to use this great tool, please contact me. It's as easy as record, export, and share!
Need help in downloading the three components for Audacity?
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