Digital Commons at Penn State

The following rooms have podiums which are specially equipped to allow recording from podium microphones (including wireless lav mics) directly into the podium computer.

You can find information about software you can use to record your lectures, and how to publish your podcasts, on the Digital Commons Podcasting page.

Building & Room Number:

Ag. Eng. 124
Armsby 215
Borland 110
Borland 111
Borland 112
Buckout 112
Boucke 214
Business 2
Business 3
Business 4
Business 5
Business 6
Business 7
Business 8
Business 9
Business 10
Business 102
Business 103
Business 104
Business 105
Business 106
Business 107
Business 108
Business 109
Business 110
EES 114
Ferguson 3
Ferguson 5
Ferguson 103
Ferguson 105
Ferguson 111
Ferguson 202
Ferguson 205
Ferguson 210
Food Sciences 133
Forestry 112
Forum 102
Forum 105
Forum 108
Forum 111
IST 113
IST 203
IST 210
Rackley 104
Thomas 100
Thomas 101
Thomas 102
Thomas 104
Thomas 110
Thomas 111

GarageBand 09 comes with a wide array of jingles and sound effects to make your podcast pop. To add an intro, outro or sound effects:

1. Click the Eye icon to open the Loop Browser.

2. Select a category, like Jingles, and then choose from the subcategories.

3. Click on a sound’s name to hear a sample.

4. When you’ve found the correct sound, click its name and drag it to the Jingles track in GarageBand.

5. Let go and the Jingle track will render. You may need to move your audio tracks around to accommodate the new addition.

Ducking

It may be necessary to lower the volume of backing tracks to more easily hear the spoken narration or dialogue. Lowering the volume of some tracks to make others easier to hear is called "ducking." GarageBand 09 automatically gives your vocal tracks priority to any underlying sound effects. However, you may want to change the order of ducking if you have two vocal tracks or need a sound effect to stand out.

Setting Up a Podcast Project
1. Open GarageBand

2. Select New Project on the left and Podcast on the right. This will open GarageBand in a podcasting configuration.

Setting the GarageBand Audio Source

1. When GarageBand has launched, choose GarageBand > Preferences.

2. Click the Audio/MIDI tab and then choose Audio Input.
Note: Make sure it is set to your microphone if you are not using the Built-in Audio (as a line-based microphone or internal mic.)

3. Check the input and monitor settings for the track you want to record into. Double-click on the track and adjust the input and monitor settings in the bottom right area of your GarageBand window. Recording Levels are also set here.

Editing audio in iMovie 08 consists of being able to trim background music that is pinned to a clip and trimming of sound effects.

To trim background music, you will need to click on the clock icon that apears in the top left of the music in your timeline.

This will then move you into an audio waveform trim mode where you are able to grab the yellow clip edge markers to adjust your start and stop points. Press Done when finished.

If you drag another piece of music to your timeline, it will default to playing immediately after the previous piece.

You can change this by dragging the clip to the right. This will pin the clip to a new starting location. A small pin icon will now appear in the music clip.

You can also re-arrange and unpin music clips in the arrange clips window.

Select a Portion of a Track
1. To select a portion of a track, first select the track in GarageBand 09 by clicking once on it.

2. Then, select the Track Editor button (scissors), which will open the track editor window at the bottom of the screen. The selected track will appear as a waveform in the Track Editor.

3. Move the cursor over a point on the waveform, until the crosshairs appear, left click, and drag left or right to select a portion of the waveform.

4. Release the mouse button to finish the selection process. Once a portion of the waveform is selected, there are numerous operations that can be performed on that chunk of the waveform.

Listen to the Track
Press the play button to listen to the track.

Delete a Portion of a Track

Choose a Track
GarageBand 09 is a multitrack editing program. The new podcast that you’ve created will open with a male voice track and a female voice track as well as numerous sound effect tracks. Choose the appropriate vocal track for your podcast’s primary voice.

Start to Record
1. Press the red Record button to begin recording from the microphone or external source. As soon as the Record button has been pressed, begin speaking or press the play button on the external source.

2. If everything is set up correctly, a waveform will appear in the track showing the volume of the audio from the recording. Note: You will not hear voice or music play through the computer speakers while recording, only during playback.

3. To stop recording, first quit speaking or stop the external source, then press the Stop/Play button in GarageBand 09.

Dr. Peter Froehlich and Dr. Maggie Froehlich assign one podcast and one video in their four sections of English 15 taught at Hazleton.

The podcast is a podcast narrative highlighting a year in American history (post 1945) of the students choosing.  For the video, the students were put into groups by era (e.g. the early 1990s) to create a 10-minute video narrative based on their combined years.

About the Course Project

Course: ENGL 15 – Rhetoric and Composition
Instructor: Maggie Gordon Froehlich and Peter Alan Froehlich, Hazleton
Number of Students: 80+ students across four sections
Semester: Spring 2009
Duration of Assignment: 4 weeks for podcast and 5 weeks for video

Benefits

Students exposed to writing for new media. Students uploading podcasts to iTunes have a better sense of who the “audience” is in terms of writing.