insert silence (Generate=3D=3D>Silence) in a track. At my last school, o=
ur=20
Mandarin teachers used that to comment on and correct student oral work=20
as pronunciation was so important. The tricky part is you need to have=20
an idea of how long you are going to be speaking. Make the silence too=20
short and you step on his words. Too long, and there is too much lag.=20
Audacity (1.3B and above) allows you to insert a label at the playback=20
position so you can write a comment. The drawback is that the audacity=20
projects are huge with multiple files as they use uncompressed audio, so=20
sharing is complex. BUT you can export the labels to a text file and=20
send just the text file back as it has the time code of wherever you=20
clicked.
_________________________________________________________
Derrel Fincher
Doctoral Student, Educational Technology and Leadership
Pepperdine University
S=E3o Paulo Phone: +55-11-3747-4800 x160
U.S. Phone: 1-918-876-1313
_________________________________________________________
On 10/15/2009 7:06 PM, Shelley Paul wrote:
> Since Audacity allows you to have multiple tracks, could you possibly "=
time
> shift" a gap into his track at each point where you want to comment, th=
en
> record your comment on a second track (coinciding on the timeline with =
the
> gap). When you re-export, ti would merge the tracks and you'd hear him
> speaking, then your comment, then him speaking, then your next comment,
> etc...?
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Dave Wang<dwang@bayschoolsf.org> wrot=
e:
>
> =20
>> Hello all --
>>
>> In my classes, students are often asked to write narrative responses t=
o
>> questions (e.g. "explain why something-or-other is true"). I have a
>> dysgraphic student who, with my encouragement, is submitting audio fil=
es
>> rather than written responses to all narrative questions. (For this
>> particular student, word processing isn't an effective option. We've
>> tried it, and it seems that regardless of the writing medium, he simpl=
y
>> has trouble getting ideas from his brain into words. He is incredibly
>> expressive and clear when speaking, which is why we're trying oral
>> responses.)
>>
>> So here's my dilemma. Say that the student has submitted a 2-minute
>> audio file that I want to annotate with comments. I'm struggling to fi=
nd
>> a good way of doing this. Right now, I'm giving him written comments i=
n
>> which I indicate a time code followed by the comment. For example:
>>
>> "At 0:52, you claim that the survey contains both undercoverage and
>> voluntary response biases, but you only explain why undercoverage
>> exists. You also need to explain why you think there's a voluntary
>> response bias."
>>
>> I find this method of annotating rather clumsy. Is there any way of
>> inserting an audio or written comment directly into an audio file? Rig=
ht
>> now, we're using Audacity, simply because that's part of my school's
>> standard student laptop image (we're a 1:1 laptop school), but neither=
I
>> nor the student are wedded to that particular program.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for your advice and suggestions.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dave Wang
>>
>> <O><O><O><O><O><O><O><O><O><O>
>> Dave Wang
>> Mathematics teacher
>> The Bay School of San Francisco
>> www.bayschoolsf.org
>> (w) (415) 561-5800 x 119
>>
>> I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways which do not work.
>>
>> - Thomas Edison
>>
>> You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
>> something, build a new model which makes the existing model obsolete.
>>
>> - Buckminster Fuller
>>
>> We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides
>> us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
>> =20
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