Podcasting and Audacity May 15, 2009

Podcast Format

Read the following article: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/05-choosing-your-podcast-format.htm

Practicing Audacity

Over the nest week, you will be creating podcasts in groups of 2 or 3.  For today, your job is to get some practice getting used to Audacity and how to use it.

The best way to learn how to use it is just to dive right in.  Today you should try and create a mix of audio and speech.  It doesn’t matter what you say today, it’s more about getting used to the software.  If you get stuck. there are video tutorials available here: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

First get in uour group of 2 or 3

Skills to perform:

1. Record some speech
2. Import an MP3 as a track
3. Arrange the two tracks so they don’t overlap
4. Edit the MP3 track so that the music fades in and out

Creative Commons May 15, 2009

This is just some information regarding Creative Commons that we spoke aboout Thursday.  To review, Creative Commons:

 ”provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.”

Creative Commons has four main license conditions:

AttributionYou let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

Share AlikeYou allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

NoncommercialYou let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative WorksYou let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Where can you find CC licensed work?

Check out this collection of sites – http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/30/30-creative-commons-sources/