All students in comp 1 participate in team based learning where they create and edit audio. Many students already know about and have used Audacity – but for those who don’t, it is a free open-source program for recording and editing sound using a computer. It’s pretty amazing – and you could probably figure out how to download by going to their website, but KU has some great step-by-step instructions in a PDF here, but the web page here has more detail and better graphics.
- NOTE: downloading the Lame encoder is necessary to export the audacity project files as Mp3’s.
- Note also that it will edit Mp3’s but not WMA (Windows Media Audio – what my voice recorder uses), so I went to CNET and downloaded a free WMA to Mp3 converter.
Most Cell phones and personal media players will record audio, but what format they use to record sound varies. You will need to figure that out to find the correct program to download that would convert to Mp3. I recommend CNET.
