Free Software & Online Tools

• Audacity (and the LAME encoder for outputting to Mp3. YOU MUST INSTALL THIS ENCODER IN ORDER TO CREATE MP3s!!!)
• Myna (the audio editor that’s part of the free Aviary suite).
• SoundCloud (For recording and sharing your audio online. Hint: This is a great place to upload your final MP3′s when you’re done and then grab an embed code to put on your blog.)

Tutorials & Advice

• Audacity Online Manual
• Audacity Tutorials (from Audacity)
• Audacity tutorials (on youtube)
• Creating a simple podcast with Audacity (this has good basic Audacity editing instructions)
• Screen cast of basics of recording and using layers, effects. envelope tool in Audacity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6GoFk15C5Y
• Creating a podcast with Myna (this has good basic Myna editing instructions)

Sound Resources

• FreeAudioClips.com
• Media Commons: Sound
• FreeSound
• Internet Archives Audio Archive
• FindSounds.com
• Free Music Archive
• ccMixter
• Transom.org - all about audio astorytelling from NPR Radio http://transom.org/
• Foley Sounds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONaPcZ4EAs 
• See foley work on A Prairie Home Companion: SFX/Rhubarb script, March 21, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZQ0fjhTlA 
• the famous Willhelm Scream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio 
• Night of the living dead sound replacement (foley artist) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUy3wyB7vQ 
• Pirates of The Caribbean- Complete Sound Replacement (Foley Artist) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5vctMnGq-c
• "All cartoons use music as an integral element in their format. Nearly all cartoons use it badly . . . ." -- Chuck Jones http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.1/articles/goldmark2.1.html 

Great Examples of Storytelling with Audio/Radio

In The Field: http://www.cbc.ca/inthefield/

The Story From Here: http://www.cbc.ca/thestoryfromhere/

radio shows from previous ds106 students http://ds106.us/radio-shows/ 

This is That: http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/

Wiretap: http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/

The Truth radio shows http://thetruthapm.com/The_Truth.html  "movies for your ears"

Dramatic reading with audio

There Will Come Soft Rains: http://archive.org/download/xminusoneotr/X_Minus_One-There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_-_Zero_Hour.mp3