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**The assessment for Denver Public Schools American History Unit offers your students the opportunity to make a podcast.**

What IS a podcast?
//The New Oxford American Dictionary// defines podcast as “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player.” In other words, it’s a digital audio file that’s created, shared, and heard.

To create a podcast, your students will use a free software program called "Audacity." Audacity simply records sound--the sound is your students' voices speaking their script.

Below are screencasts that will walk you through how to use Audacity to make a podcast. Simply click on the link and watch the video on how to make a podcast with Audacity. If a window pops up asking you which application to use to view this screencast, choose nothing and click "OK."


 * [|Project Introduction] ||
 * [|Using Audacity] ||

Other Audacity Tutorials

[|A short tutorial] that provides an overview of using Audacity

[|A tutorial that focuses on] Audacity's tools

[|Particularly note the section in this tutorial] "Bouncing Two Stereo Tracks to One Mono Track"

[|This is an important tutorial on] "Changing Audio Sample Rate in Audacity"

[|This is a movie on using Audacity] to create a podcast from a number of recordings

[|A recommended tutorial from Transom]

[|An excellent screencast on the use of Audacity]

TO DOWNLOAD AUDACITY: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ You will also need to download the lame file: __http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3__