What have I learned? (Blog week 5)

Learning on week 5 lesson.....
1. Audiacity
- Audiacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
- It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems

Different uses of Audiacity
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

I learned on how to record our voices using the programme and i am suppose to apply the knowledge learned to my elearning package using audiacity 1.2.6 as it is stable release, complete and fully documented

2. Slides template and custom animation
Slide template
- The default design template or theme, when you first start a PowerPoint presentation, is a plain, white slide.
- This plain, white slide is created from the slide master.
- Many colorful, preset design templates are included with PowerPoint to make your presentations more interesting.

Custom animation
- It contains a list of effects that you can apply to objects to have them animate during the slide show.
- With custom animation you have a great deal of fine control over the manner, sound, order and timing of the appearance of each object on a slide.
- You can individually animate the various slide objects (the slide title, the bulleted points, tables, charts, and graphics).
- This allows you to skillfully direct your audience’s attention while adding interest to your presentation.

Therefore it is important for to apply it to my elearning package in order to attract the students attention.

Links: http://www.esnips.com/doc/9834a892-dd87-4de3-89c2-04cd3c519123/audiacity