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Editing Voice in Audacity
After you've recorded your podcast you realize it's not perfect. Watch part six of this nine-part series on using Audacity software and you'll learn how to fix any mistakes you've made during the taping of your project.
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5 Importing Music in Audacity
Importing music to accompany your podcast is the topic of part five of this nine-part series. Jill explains how and where to get music, how to use it, and how it works in the Audacity software. Your class podcast will be really great now!
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4 Save, Export, and Delete in Audacity
Installment four of the nine-part series on using Audacity describes saving, exporting, and deleting podcasts you've made. If you read the excerpt under this video as it comes on you're screen you'll notice a web link. This takes you to...
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3 Recording Tools in Audacity
Part three in this nine part series on using Audacity explains how to use and where to find recording tools. You'll have no problem making a podcast now.
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2 Preferences in Audacity
Part two in this nine part series on using Audacity focuses on installing, creating folders, and downloading preferences related to the software. Super great and really informative.
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1 Introduction to Audacity
If you are a teacher interested in creating classroom podcasts, this series of nine short videos could be a life saver. Each video explains how to download, use, and upload your audio tracks or podcasts to the Internet. A fellow teacher...
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Offshore Oil Drilling
An entertaining and informative video on offshore oil drilling is posted here. A young student is on an oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico and interviews the foreman of the rig. An excellent graphic on exactly how the oil rig drills...
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Crude Oil
Watch the distillation process as a female narrator explains what is happening. Ideally you would demonstrate this process or have advanced classes work in lab groups to perform it themselves. If time is short or materials not available,...
TED-Ed
How Containerization Shaped the Modern World
"It's the reason we have a thriving global market place, offering us the infinite variety of things, and it's the reason we can move cargoes from remote parts of the world at minimal cost." Learn about how small-town truck driver Malcom...
TED-Ed
Social Animal
Similar to the rebirth of knowledge of the Enlightenment and Renaissance periods, David Brooks claims that today, we are developing a revolution in consciousness, exploring the depths of our nature and coming away with a new humanism....
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Alternative Energy
Solar energy and biofuels are introduced as future alternative sources of energy. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has made it their mission to make these alternatives more efficient and competitive with the use of fossil fuels....
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How to Make a Movie Not an Animation
This is not animation, it just looks that way. This brief explanation describes how to make a movie using PowerPoint and iMovie software. For individuals familiar with these tools, this clip could be a big help.
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How It's Made - Windows
The fascinating process of making windows is explained in this well-made video. Perhaps you could show it in a career exploration or technology class.
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SDO Shines Light on the Sun
The sun has a huge affect on our planet. NASA scientists are using amazing new technologies to better understand solar flares, space weather, and their effects on Earth. Watch and learn all about space weather produced by the sun and the...
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Earth at Night
The Sumoi NPP satellite collects light from Earth's surface during nighttime hours. From the images produced, scientists can study populations, pollution, sea ice, moon phases, and more! This brief video clip would be a high-quality...
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STEMbite: Refrigeration
Mr. Vanden Heuvel opens up the back of his refrigerator to show viewers how it works. He explains that the mechanism removes heat from inside the cooler box. The refrigerant material changes phases from a liquid to a gas, thus extracting...
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STEMbite: Gear Ratios
Demonstrate how different-sized gears work together according to gear ratios. With the guts of a clock and the gears of a bicycle, Mr. Vander Heuvel explains how changing gears can alter the output of a system when the same input is...