Teacher and Student comments on "Using Audio in Education"

sourced from:

  1. Feedbook experiment
  2. Student Blogs

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[email your blog adddress to the teacher for adding to the list]

New items of interest from:

  1. del.icio.us tagged with edaudio
  2. Will Richardson's Audiocasting feed
  3. EdNA search for 'audio'

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'Tools'

Audacity for recording and editing

The Learning Edge includes a Sound Editor in the Assembler> View Menu> Sound Studio (TAFE username and password required)

Equipment List

  1. External micrphone to plug into computer
  2. Headphones
  3. Sound Card on computer

'How To'

Hints for Preparing and Recording Audio from the University of Southern Queensland

Hopefully the New Practices project "beyond Text" will have some good how to's on a range of topics and applications of audio online http://www.flexiblelearning....yond_text.html 

Example of how audio was used to present a resource for teaching staff at Deakin Uni http://www.deakin.edu....s/index.htm 

And another example from St John's ambulance http://www.sja.org.uk/firstaid/info/ 

'References'

D'arcy Norman writes about Podcasting at http://www.darcynorman.net/20...ion

TAFE Tas Employee ICT Acceptable Use Guidelines which confirm that "Audio or video files, games and Internet chat sites may only be accessed or downloaded if they are genuinely related to the duties assigned to the employee’s position in TAFE Tasmania" - see section 9 

Using Audio to Enhance Study Materials from University of Southern Queensland.

Some other article I found that may not stay http://connect.educaus...1228