Collaborative Podcast

Hello Everybody!

I figured that since the Collaborative Podcast isn't due until 2/24 (next Sunday), we could get a jump on it early since its a little bit bigger assignment! This looks like a lot of words, but I promise it isn't as much as you think.:)

Requirements: 
- 3-5 minutes
- Include different aspects of our greenhouse project. So, 1. why we are using Project-based Learning, 2. what has been done so far, and 3. where you are headed in the big project. (one thing for each of us to discuss!)
- Include at least 2 concepts from the textbook
- Include background music, louder at the beginning and fade to lower volume before we talk, keep the music on while we speak just at a low volume, and fade into louder to conclude.
- It must be in an MP3 file and submitted in a Drop Box in Module #6 on ELearning

Below I copy and pasted what Sharon put in the instructions and made it a little easier to follow and find! 

The How-To's:

- Open Audacity. Go to the Project Menu and select “New Audio Track” (For newer version, you start by clicking on the Record button).  Record your script. 

- Minor pauses and umms can be edited out! To do this, use the cursor tool to highlight the area you would like deleted then press the delete key on your keyboard.  

- Choose your music and sound effects. Click on the Project menu and “Import Audio”. (For newer version, go to File, Import, and then find your music to import).

- After importing background music, you can use the fading tool from the top middle in the tool selection area in the top left of your screen. (For newer version, it is found in group on the right of the Record button). Click once where you would like the music to start fading out and then click where you would like the music to be faded out. At the second point you can pull down and the second part of the track will get thinner.  Do same for the end of podcast.

- The vocal track can be moved to fit in the center of your audio track by using the move tool in the bottom middle of your tools. Click anywhere on your track and move it left or right to fit into your background music.

- Once completed everything, click on the File menu and click “export as MP3”. (For newer version, go to File, Export and then choose at the button of the window the MP3 files).  Submit your MP3 file in Drop Box in Module #6.

Combining Podcast Files - 1 group member will collect the rest of the podcast files. The other group members need to export their portion as an MP3 file. Then attach it to an email. The group member putting them together needs to save the file from the email (not open), and then import the file into their audacity file. It will be automatically added to the program in a new row. The group member putting it together needs to move the imported files in the correct spot using the Time Shift tool.

I'm not very familiar with Audacity so I'm not sure which is easier: doing it separately and one of us putting our own pieces together or just sitting down somewhere together and doing it that way. Sharon explained in the instructions page for this assignment the different aspects that we can talk on. She listed 3 of them and I listed them above, under requirements. Luckily for us, we only have 3 people in our group so I'm thinking that we could each talk on an aspect for about 1 minute and 15-30 seconds (ish), we will be in good shape! I'm also thinking that since regular podcasts aren't scripted and below I pasted something Sharon touched on in the instructions about a script. If we do our own rough 'bullet point script' and run it by each other, we'll be good to go!

Let me know your thoughts! I think that if we can set up a time do this maybe this weekend or during the week next week, we won't need to worry about the deadline and what not.

Rachel Bontrager