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Tips for advanced Audacity editing

This week in a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop in Oklahoma City, I learned several new “advanced” tips for improving the quality of audio recordings with Audacity from one of our participants. The handouts for Audacity which we use in our 2.5 day workshop cover the basics of recording audio, playback, selecting and deleting [...]

Using cell phones as voice recorders for digital storytelling

A variety of web services continue to emerge which offer voicemail to mp3 recording functionality, but drop.io is the only one of which I’m aware currently that provides a generous amount of free recording time. For teachers and students creating digital stories or interested in assessment methods which use cell phones or regular land land [...]

Publishing audio at will

The capability to publish ideas instantaneously for a global audience can inspire both excitement as well as fear.

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Blogs are naturally “publish at will” platforms. While blogs certainly CAN be configured to have new posts “moderated” by someone serving in the role of a gatekeeper, by default most blogs allow users to publish INSTANTLY. [...]

Cell Phones as Audio Recorders

Presentations about the uses of cell phones to support learning both inside and outside the traditional classroom have been popular as well as contentious at educational technology conferences in the past year. I first become aware of the wide variety of constructive ways cell phones can be used to support learning through Liz Kolb’s presentation [...]