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How a teacher best adds cues and pauses to an mp3-recording with Audacity to create student language exercises
- The first screencast example uses insert tones and a gut amount of pause, for an interpreting exercise, into an authentic German political speech
- 1:00 search for a break (button: play/stop – pause prevents edits)
- 1:05 move the cursor to the break (mouse left-click on timeline)
- 1:20 insert a pause (menu:Generate / Silence )
- 1:25 zoom in (button:magnifying glass, CTRL + mouse scroll wheel)
- 1:45 generate a tone (menu:Generate / Noise), change the duration
- 2:10 do not replace the selection
- 2:20 use undo, just like in MS-word and other programs
- 2:30 move the cursor to the start of the selection (mouse left-click on timeline)
- 2:40 generate a tone (menu:Generate / Noise)
- don’t forget to review results before distributing to students
- the second screencast example, of post-editing a questions/response exercise in ESL, takes the amount of pause inserted from the recorded teacher instruction for the student, and uses copy/paste to speed things up even more.
- You can also only insert tones and not pauses, as in the 3rd screencast, and allow the students flexible pause lengths, if you can rely on the Sanako Student recorder Voice insert. Or if you must, let students use audacity for recording also, and have them learn how to move the recording cursor around manually, and throw away the source track.
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2012/01/25 at 00:07How a teacher creates audio recordings for use with Sanako Student Voice Insert mode « Thomas' Work Space
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