What I learned on Oct. 1

I was amazed to know the free sound editor "Audacity."  Even though my personal aim with the software was oriented to music, it was great to know such free software. 

As for the implication for teaching, I remember I was thinking how we could create opportunities for students to practice for speech contest, which was annually held at my previous high school.  If we let students download this software, they can practice their speech by themselves at home and listen to their own speech.  After practicing as much as they want, they can send some of the works to teachers if their time does not permits face-to-face meeting (too many things are usually going on at the same time).   The teacher can comment through the same way (as somebody was mentioning in the discussion; sorry, I do not remember who said) or written massage via email.

I am still struggling to come up with using podcast…. Before using, I think I need to be familiar with it.

But I am really glad that I know Audacity very much. It allowed me to edit my recording. So, whenever I forget what I was going to say and made a long silence, I cut and shortened the silence. I'm loving it!