Title: Work Plan: Audio Processing
Course: Informàtica 4t ESO v2 ang > Section: Topic 12. Audio Processing

Work Plan

What will you learn in this topic?

In this topic you will learn to use an audio processing program called Audacity. You must do a series of assignments that will eventually let you generate a promotional advertisement for your App.

The different sections are:

- Using Audacity: Tools and Material.
- Audacity in Practice

Timing:

Total time spent on this topic is 6 hours distributed as follows:

- Using Audacity: Tools and Material → 1 hour
- Audacity in Practice → 5 hours

Proposed work sequence:

- Using Audacity: Tools and Material

What Will You Learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Use of Audacity, going over all the tools that comprise it and listing them with their uses | Document: Sound File Formats | Explanation of the most popular sound file formats.
Tutorials: Use of Audacity | Explanatory material in a highly visual format on the use of Audacity
Video tutorials: YouTube tutorials on using Audacity | YouTube has a series of short videos on different uses of Audacity
Forum: Audacity Questions Forum | Space to raise questions about using Audacity with your classmates

- Audacity in Practice

What Will You Learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Creating audio files via the different possibilities that Audacity offers | Folder: Sounds | Collecting sounds to be able to do some of the assignments
Assignment 1: Recording and Sound Effects | Recording and sound effects
Assignment 2: Integrating Music in the Recording | Integrating music in the recording
Assignment 3: A Sound Story | Combining sound effects
Assignment 4: Adding Voice to a Soundtrack | Recording a story with soundtrack
Assignment 5: Jingle | Creation of an ad