Myna

=**Myna Audio editor** =

Overview:
   ||  ||< Myna is an audio editor. This tool allows you to use music from the provided library, upload your own, and record audio. More importantly, it allows you a great deal of flexibility in what your final product sounds like. There are many effects (pitch, reverb, reversing the track, etc.) that can be used to make your original audio recording sound very different as I tried to show in the recording I embedded below. Myna also allows recording to be downloaded as an MP3 or WAV file. This allows you to use what has been created in Myna with other applications.
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 * Educational Benefit:**

This editor allows you to work with audio clips. There is an extensive library of music clips available, you can upload music to the site, and, if you have a microphone attached to your computer, you can record yourself! At first, there might not seem to be many uses for such a tool, but there are several good options available. You can use it to record basic instructions for what the class is to do that day, play it at the beginning of class, and free yourself up to take roll or collect papers. You can embed these recordings into web pages like this one I made extolling the virtues of EDET 793: media type="custom" key="5273569" This would be a great way to let parents know what is going on in class; they can go online and listen to it! Besides using Myna as a way to Podcast, students can use it to create narrations for MovieMaker projects. One of the downsides to MovieMaker is that it only allows you to record one audio track; Myna allows 10. Students can choose background music to match their video project, add in narration where appropriate, and then sync it up in MovieMaker (by adjusting how long images are displayed). While Myna is not simple to use, it is not overly complex. I watched Aviary's tutorial video: media type="youtube" key="_3-VWMKpQiI" height="340" width="560" At the same time, I created the audio track I embedded above. The best way to learn to use a tool such as Myna is to play around with it. I feel that, of all of the tools, this is one that students might be really excited about because many of them do not have experience with this type of editing. I've included a video showing a few of the Myna tools that I felt were important: media type="custom" key="5273719"


 * Drawbacks:**

The biggest concern that I would have with having students use this editor is that students would use copyright protected music in their creations. Teaching them about Fair Use would be critical. Although not as easy to use as Falcon, the mark-up editor, the ease with which most students would pick up the basic functions of Myna greatly reduce time constraint concerns.


 * Literature review:**

This tool is not represented in literature, but the way it allows students to freely create content is certainly supported by research on this generation of digital natives.

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