pondělí 26. března 2012

Sound Editing

1. What does the word "podcast" mean? Go to Podomatic, create an account and browse the site. How can we use it in teaching English?

Good examples - Teacher Luke at Podomatic, Splendid Speaking for advances learners

2. Download two audio files - some text and some music (separate files, max. 3' each). Open Audacity - sound editing freeware - and try to combine the two files into one :)

A crude minicast - a format suitable for teaching  and having fun

Audacity Basics - you should be able to
- install Audacity and the lame library which enables export to mp3
- open a file in Audacity
- edit the file: cut and paste, fade in/out, change speed, delete, add silence
- create a new file
- combine two files (e.g. speech + background music)
- inserting silence (e.g. as a space for an answer)
- changing the speed or pitch (carefully!)

REMEMBER - before editing, create a backup copy of the original!


Online audio for teachers:



http://www.download-esl.com/audio.html
http://www.123listening.com/
http://thoughtaudio.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/
http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html
http://www.esl-lab.com/
listening materials with quizzes
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/
 short stories for listening
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening-pre-intermediate.php



Examples of galleries with audio comments created by your colleagues:

http://www.dzblecht.wz.cz/My%20home%20town.html
http://skipit.wz.cz/galerie.html

http://vvalova.wz.cz/gallery.html
http://romankalecky.wz.cz/gallery.html
http://www.springday.euweb.cz/fotogalerie.html
http://personalpage.unas.cz/Personalgallery.html

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