Trey's Prayer

This started out as an Audacity file which I exported as an MP3 and then made into a short video file in Windows Movie Maker.  Then I uploaded it to YouTube, copied the embed code and pasted it into the HTML editor here.  Sounds fancy to some of you, but it's actually easy.

So basically I want to learn how to use Audacity which is a free audio recording program.  There are many things my students can do with this.  We can create podcasts in journalism class, for one.  Students can also create PPTs or other media and add their own voice to it.  We can't afford Adobe Presenter, so Audacity is it.  But I'm finding that Audacity is easy to use.  My middle schoolers will probably be teaching me all about its features soon. 

Basically, what I'm learning I have to do to post audio to my blog is I either have to store my audio in a host server (I can't quite figure that out yet) or turn my audio into another kind of media file like this "movie" which I can embed.

I bought an MP3 recorder at Best Buy the other day, but I don't really know if I will need that now.  I haven't opened it, so we'll see.  I have some time to think about it.  If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

So to get back to Audacity...I first uploaded their newest BETA version but couldn't install the LAME plug-in with that which allows you to export the recorded files that you are producing into MP3.  So I went back to Audacity's download site and just uploaded the regular version of Audacity, installed the LAME plug-in and voila: I turned Trey's prayer into an MP3.

By the way, this was my first try at using Windows Media Player, and it was so much easier than using Vegas (my Sony moviemaking software)!  But Ms. F. says that in her filmmaking class, she has to convert all of her movie files into something else in order to use WMM.  I'll ask her about that later.  When she told me I had already had a glass or two of wine.  So I don't really remember what she said.  I think she uses a Sony handycam, and that's the problem.