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Have you heard of this software called Audacity? Well, if you haven’t, then you will be pleased to know that audacity is a free, easy-to-use, user-friendly, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux and some other operating systems. The interface is translated into various languages and therefore it can be a befitting option for multi-lingual people. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into CDs or digital recordings, record computer playback on any Windows Vista machine, edit WAV, AIFF, MP2, MP3, FLAC sound files, cut, copy, mix, slice sounds together and for various other useful functions. But do you know how you can use this extremely useful software for your students? If answered no, here is a list of ways that you can explore.

1. Prepare an audio/radio advertisement: Every school produces some kind of products and if you’re eager to teach your students how to advertise, endorse or promote the products produced by their own school, you can use Audacity to prepare an audio/radio advertisement. This way you can support serice learning and also help the advertising unit in promoting the products of the school.
2. Create podcasts with Audacity: Podcasts are definitely limited by only your imagination. You can check the internet to know what the experts like Kim Cofino and his colleagues are doing with podcasts. How they’re creating podcasts and using it for business purposes is something that you can learn before creating one. There are teachers and students who communicate through podcasts as this is a great way of sharing knowledge and it is usually accepted by the elders that kids grasp things more when things are shown visually. You can teach the students to create book reviews, reports and other poetry readings.
3. Promote language learning: If your school teaches you different languages, you can record a single class where they’re speaking in a particular language and then upload the video or audio in Voki to create speaking Avatars. There are a number of teachers who employ this method of communicating with their students as this is indeed a useful one.
4. Record speeches: If you want any kind of evidence of learning, the speeches given by the teachers or the meritorious students can also be done by audacity download. If you upload this file in Glogster (an upcoming online poster tool), you can share it with a wider audience and then gather their comments for enhancing your knowledge on the topic.
5. Create sound stories: You can also use Audacity for creating sound stories for images by using free sound effects websites as there are number of students who do so for their school festivals. You can even use Flickr photos as your source of ‘sound-rich’images.

Hence, if you’re wondering about downloading Audacity, you can undoubtedly do so as there are multiple advantages of this particular software. If you’re a school teacher or you’re a parent of a school-going kid, you can easily put it to even more use, as mentioned above.