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Big picture & comprehensive process

Personal and academic growth in front of you without having to go back through folders and binders

One area of expertise: iMovie editing and green screen

One thing I learned this summer: opossums become cannibalistic if they do not have access to enough food

One fun summer moment: Watching the release of seven white tail deer fawns back into the wild

One thing I wish I had sone this summer: slept more

For my semester project, I worked with Jen to come up with a plan to make an Audacity tutorial using the Screencast-O-Matic software that is available online.  Screencast was a good choice for me to use because I was already familiar with it from using it for a presentation in a class in the Fall semester. I began by planing out the different parts of Audacity I would talk about in my tutorial, including how and where to download Audacity, how to start recording the podcast, and adding music. For this project I really wanted to focus on how to add music from the Creative Commons located on the UNE ePortfolio website. In my tutorial, I walked though how to find the UNE ePortfolio site and find the link to the Free Music Archive, how to search different genres and download the music to your computer, and how to input it into Audacity. This project accurately displays the knowledge gained from working at DigiSpace by combining different aspects both audio and video projects. While the project using a video software program, the video itself demonstrates how to also use audio software, such as Audacity.  Additionally, I was able to use the Screencast software to edit my video, similarly to how one can edit on an iMovie project.  Overall, this this project served multiple purposes. The tutorial created can help students with starting their podcasts using Audacity, and how to add free music to enhance their projects.  While creating this tutorial, I learned more about Audacity, such as how to speed up the audio and the different kinds of effects that can be applied to a podcast. I also learned how to take audio directly from iTunes and drag it to Audacity to quickly add the audio. This let me know that essentially, students can add anything they have in their iTunes or Garage Band files. Surprisingly, this audio/video project turned out to be a fairly good project with some feedback from my peers.

Changing topic to troubleshooting for ePortfolio

Topics

• Changing theme when menu and layout don’t look right
• Making sure you click “primary menu”
• Difference between page and post
• Too big media
• Inserting a hyperlink

• Spent about 30 minutes creating a topic list for a useful iMovie/Audacity project
• Settled on the creation of a podcast giving a quick list of dos and don’ts for students before coming to Digi Space
  • Ex: Do bring all your notes and information
  • Don’t forget to make sure all your group members can meet during the timeslot