Details on Audacity

Pros and Cons

Pro: provides many options for recording original audio and for editing/optimizing existing audio

Instructional Applications

• audio recording of lectures
• enrichment narrative from the faculty member, outside expert or community member
• recorded interviews (audio only can also be valuable where anonymity is a concern)
• storytelling
• sound clips for music courses
• pronunciation and syntactical support for foreign language, TESOL and ESL courses
• student audio presentations shared with classmates as an attachment to a Discussion posting or uploaded as part of an assignment