Mrs. Sheila Boyd
First Grade Teacher
Everett Area Elementary School
I was asked to share Audacity and how to
use it in your classrooms. I use Audacity in
my classroom on a regular basis. I think it’s a
great teaching tool.
Today, I hope you will learn how to record,
edit, and share sound files.
First, for those unfamiliar with Audacity, it
is an open-source recording program that is
quite powerful.
Record live audio
 Convert tapes and records into digital
recordings or CD’s
 Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, or AIFF
sound files
 Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds
together
 Change the speed or pitch of a
recording
 And more
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Audacity: Audacity is a free, easy-to-use
audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac
OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating
systems.
Audacity View
 Podcasting:
Powerful and
Practical:
Audacity is the perfect tool for
podcasting
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In a Intermediate grade general music class, you
might use Audacity to record multiple tracks for a
video. In this example, students begin by heading
to http://www.blobprod.com and use the online
mixer to mix their sounds, using the soundbank
provided. They record this in Audacity, then record
their own voices reading a story they’ve written.
Using the editing tools in Audacity, students then
put the two parts together, and they’ve now
created their own soundtrack to use with their
Animoto video, which they’ve created using their
own pictures. Neat project!
 Social
 Math
Studies
 Language
Arts
 Foreign Language
 Music
 Science
 Other Uses
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Support
Statements
Interviews
Description Clips
Social Studies
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Teacher Audio
Students Response
Student Audio
Foreign Language
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Procedures for
solving a problem
Homework
assignment podcast
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Math
Reader’s Theater
Study Notes
Summarizing Main
Ideas
Narrate an event
from each
character’s point of
view.
Language Arts
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Record
Demonstration
Tag for musical
events
Music
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Lab Directions
Note Taking
Science
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To provide evidence of
learning, and upload to
Glogster ( an online
poster tool) to shaer
with a wider audience.
Record Speeches
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To enhance any
presentation
Record sound for
PowerPoint slides
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Written compositions
or class singing to
share with others
Record compositions
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Sing songs for
projects about
1. human body
2. insects
3. grammar
etc.
Record soundtracks for
animations
Promote reading development:
Record reading books. (Helps
emergent readers)
Create sound stories for images
using free sound effects websites.
You can use a creative commons
Flickr photos as your source of
“sound-rich” images.
 Students
write a story.
 Read it on audacity
 Listen to the story for expression
 Download the story on school web
page for parents and grand
parents to hear.
(Only use the student’s first name
for privacy.)
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Use audacity to advertise products the school
produces to support service learning for their
advertising unit.
 Record
kids speaking in one of
their language classes then
upload to Voki to create speaking
Avatars.
Can be done in Intermediate or
High School classes.
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Class or School Announcements
Display of Student Work
Help Sessions for absent students
New Student Orientation
( Walking Podcast)
New Parent Orientation
Limited only to your imagination
Thank you
so much for
attending my
session!
Mrs. Sheila Boyd
First Grade
Everett Area Elementary
School
sboyd@everett.k12.pa.us