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Lesson Plan Search – Google in Education. Lesson Plan Search – Google in Education. ePals Global Community. The Daring Librarian. TED-Ed. WordSift - Visualize Text. Great Minds Share Alike. The idea for MentorMob sprouts from the backgrounds of Kris Chinosorn and Vince Leung. Both avid learners, they found early on that the Internet was not quite the incredible tool for learning new skills and hobbies that everyone thinks it is. Even with millions of free lessons online, the content is almost impossible to navigate. "You don’t really know where to start, what to learn next or who you can trust, which is why in a sea of free content, people are still paying for online lessons.

" - Vince Leung, CTO Both Kris and Vince knew there had to be a better, more efficient way to learn for free online and that is when MentorMob was born. Since MentorMob’s inception, the company has seen many changes, and pivoted from it’s original website (now residing as LessonPaths.com) to create a community focused social learning platform that features one in-depth learning experience that works. Free Technology for Teachers. Ask a Tech Teacher | Let the games begin. RubiStar Home. Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor. Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record.

Free Audio Editor and Recorder. Editing for Beginners - Introduction. Sound Editing in the "real world" Sound editors clean up dialogue tracks, cut layers of special effects, place sounds at certain times, create ambiance tracks by cutting out unwanted stuff and mixing in interesting or necessary sounds. Music production engineers may cut pieces of vocals away or shift them to a another spot in a song.

Editing is about cutting, placing, fading, cross-fading, shifting, duplicating and adjusting the volume (also referred to as level) of audio material. Mixing is a form of editing too of course. Here is an example of what is done in sound editing during the production of a television show or film. The Path of Sound in Film and TV Postproduction Film and TV crews have at least two people present that take care of recording sound during principal photography of a show. Sound in Principal Photography The first person is the boom pole operator. This is the raw sound material of a show. Post Production Raw sound - Cleanup time Adding stuff - the really big deal. Creating a simple voice and music Podcast with Audacity. Get the music into Audacity Import the required backing music into Audacity. This could be an audio file like a WAV or an MP3; import it by clicking .

It is also possible to record the music from records or cassettes (see Transferring tapes and records to computer or CD) or any audio that plays on the computer (on Windows or Linux) and record it into Audacity - see Can Audacity record RealAudio or other streaming audio? On a Mac, use a tool like Audio Hijack to record sounds playing from an application such as a web browser to an .AIFF audio file. On OS X, CD tracks should also appear as AIFF files in the Finder, so they can simply be dragged into Audacity or imported from the CD with . Create the Voice Track Create the voice track by recording it with a microphone onto a new track in the Audacity Project. It is necessary to use tight-fitting headphones to record while listening to a music track, to avoid the microphone picking up the music playback in the voice recording.

Audacity Tutorial for Podcasters. In this Audacity tutorial you'll finally press record. We'll take a tour of the software and learn how to record your podcast. NOTE: There are video tutorials available on this page. They are marked with a icon. When you click a tutorial link, it will open the video in a new browser window. To play the videos, you will need to download the latest version of the free Flash player.

The best way to view the video tutorial is with your browser in full screen mode. Now let's get started with the audacity tutorial videos:. Recording Setup The Editing Tools Basic Editing and Trimming Your Audio Adjusting Levels Importing Audio and Adding Music to Your Podcast Saving Your Project and Exporting the MP3 Now you know how to record a basic podcast, edit it and even add a little music. How to Use ID3 Tags >> << How to Download and Install Audacity.