
Audacity is a sound editing software application that is very popular in schools. It can be used to record, edit, playback and podcast music, voices and other sound files. Use it to record interviews, music and to edit files together to create a podcast.
Files can be saved in a variety of formats and the application is robust and stable. The application is well documented and support is available from the forums on the project website.

From the Open Source Schools presentation at BETT 2009, slides and commentary by José Picardo, filmed by Hannah Wise of BBC Backstage, edited by Leon Cych of Learn4Life:










