After several days, hours, and minutes working on this podcast, I have come to a point of stopping. I am not satisfied, there are several things I am not clear on. This was a HUGE learning curve for me. Not only just deciding what to talk about, but timing myself and not saying "um", adding music and trying to incorporate that into the podcast, saving the podcast, trying to upload the podcast to archive.org and now here. I can see the unlimited potential that podcasting has, but I also know that it is not just something someone can do without doing a little research on how to use audacity.
Here is the archive.org version but it does not include the laborious music tracks in the podcast, as they uploaded as seperate MP3 files. https://archive.org/details/GirlsJustWannaHaveFun_201506 so you don't get the full effect, only my dull voice.
To complete the technical objective, you should choose three to five of the following options.
I chose:
Choose 1 or 2 of the following 3 objectives.
I chose:
Objective 1: Explain and document your learning trajectory in accomplishing the technical objectives. Be specific. For example, say "I did a Google search for 'podcast RSS feed parameters'," not "I used the internet."
Objective 2: Explain and document the path to learning that you wish you had followed, or would like to follow the next time you set out to accomplish a similar task.
Objective 1: Since I have never done anything like this, I first had to see if I needed a microphone. I downloaded Audacity since that is what is commonly used. That was easy. I then read through the tutorials that audacity has with its software. Getting Started, Your First Recording, Editing an Audio File and Mixing Voice with Audio seemed to be my friend. Your first recording said to that computers with Windows 7,8 and Vista should have inputs for recording built in I wasnt too worried since my computer is less than 6 months old. I did a test recording which required to start your monitoring and go from there. Test was success! I then recorded my podcast, several times and searched for music to add. I went to soundbible.com and searched for cool sounds and came up with one that sounds like breaking news and then looked for songs on mp3skull. It is a file share site my teenager uses, so I figured it safe? It was easy to add music/sound just go to edit/import. The hardest part for me was adding it where I wanted it to play and not play when I was talking. I did some clipping and sometimes clipped some of my podcast, had to undo.. All I wanted was to have news sound, my music (girls just wanna have fun for about 3 seconds) then just fade out into my podcast. But I could not figure that out so I deleted my podcast, got the other 2 sounds/music perfect, recording a new podcast (take 35) which began where I wanted it. Finally I thought. But then that brought more issues with exporting. Exporting said it would only export 2 stereotracks and I have 3 (the podcast, the news sound and the brief music) I could export all of these by selecting export multiple to mp3 files and wav files but they exported separately. I tried and tried! I could upload them to archive.org as well but not as one recording as it is in audacity. I think I could need to split tracks to labels or something like that.
Objective 2: I wish I could have sat down with someone and had them show me or we work through it together. I can read manuals and tutorials and other classmate's posts about how they did it but I seemed to have other issues each time. With this being so foreign it was very challenging to teach myself how to do it all and I am usually a perfectionist but this time I became so frustrated. I can say I know how to record a podcast, but adding sounds effects/music is still difficult and getting all of that to export to be able to play as it is supposed to I still have not figured out.
Here is the archive.org version but it does not include the laborious music tracks in the podcast, as they uploaded as seperate MP3 files. https://archive.org/details/GirlsJustWannaHaveFun_201506 so you don't get the full effect, only my dull voice.
To complete the technical objective, you should choose three to five of the following options.
I chose:
- use a computer, phone, or audio recorder to create audio
- add sound effects or music to your audio ( I tried)
- post your podcast(s) on your blog or other public space
- upload content to archive.org or other pubic site
Choose 1 or 2 of the following 3 objectives.
I chose:
Objective 1: Explain and document your learning trajectory in accomplishing the technical objectives. Be specific. For example, say "I did a Google search for 'podcast RSS feed parameters'," not "I used the internet."
Objective 2: Explain and document the path to learning that you wish you had followed, or would like to follow the next time you set out to accomplish a similar task.
Objective 1: Since I have never done anything like this, I first had to see if I needed a microphone. I downloaded Audacity since that is what is commonly used. That was easy. I then read through the tutorials that audacity has with its software. Getting Started, Your First Recording, Editing an Audio File and Mixing Voice with Audio seemed to be my friend. Your first recording said to that computers with Windows 7,8 and Vista should have inputs for recording built in I wasnt too worried since my computer is less than 6 months old. I did a test recording which required to start your monitoring and go from there. Test was success! I then recorded my podcast, several times and searched for music to add. I went to soundbible.com and searched for cool sounds and came up with one that sounds like breaking news and then looked for songs on mp3skull. It is a file share site my teenager uses, so I figured it safe? It was easy to add music/sound just go to edit/import. The hardest part for me was adding it where I wanted it to play and not play when I was talking. I did some clipping and sometimes clipped some of my podcast, had to undo.. All I wanted was to have news sound, my music (girls just wanna have fun for about 3 seconds) then just fade out into my podcast. But I could not figure that out so I deleted my podcast, got the other 2 sounds/music perfect, recording a new podcast (take 35) which began where I wanted it. Finally I thought. But then that brought more issues with exporting. Exporting said it would only export 2 stereotracks and I have 3 (the podcast, the news sound and the brief music) I could export all of these by selecting export multiple to mp3 files and wav files but they exported separately. I tried and tried! I could upload them to archive.org as well but not as one recording as it is in audacity. I think I could need to split tracks to labels or something like that.
Objective 2: I wish I could have sat down with someone and had them show me or we work through it together. I can read manuals and tutorials and other classmate's posts about how they did it but I seemed to have other issues each time. With this being so foreign it was very challenging to teach myself how to do it all and I am usually a perfectionist but this time I became so frustrated. I can say I know how to record a podcast, but adding sounds effects/music is still difficult and getting all of that to export to be able to play as it is supposed to I still have not figured out.