This is a great tool for podcasting and radio shows!

How I Use It

I had 8th grade students use Audacity to create radio commercials as part of our unit on media literacy and propaganda. Students worked with a partner to script an advertisement using several of the propaganda techniques. They also found royalty-free music on the website purple-planet.com to add to the mood and tone of the advertisement. One student in the class rarely turned in regular class assignments, but he was all over this one. In fact the class voted him and his partner's commercial as the best! This can be used for struggling readers as an audio reading portfolio. They can create radio shows where they do mock interviews with famous historical figures. Teachers can use it to record lessons for students to listen to on the web. There are so many uses of this application.