Author Mark Prensky has referred to today’s young learners as “digital immigrants.” They have grown up using computers and other digital devices, at school, at home, and in all their leisure-time activities. When they want to listen to music they download it from the Web and upload it to MP3 players, such as the iPod. They also play music and videos over their digital phones other portable devices. These young learners expect to be taught the way they play – via digital media. Digital audio can be a valuable learning and teaching tool. On this website you will find many audio resources we digital immigrants can use to facilitate learning and teaching the digital immigrants who populate our college campuses today.

A Digital Audio Primer
This brief introduction to digital audio is from the Adobe website, and is a good place to start learning about the topic.

Advantages of Digital Audio vs. Analog Audio
If you are interested in learning why you should record digital audio as opposed to analog audio, check out this article from Lentine's educational technology website.

History of Audio Recording
This website features an interesting article on the history of audio recording.

Hardware and Sofware Used in Digital Audio Recording
The Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment of the University of Texas at Austin sponsors this website which lists hardware and software used for podcasting. The same equipment may also be used for any digital audio recording.

Online Articles

List of digital audio file formats from The Sonic Spot
Everything you've always wanted to learn about the MPEG format
A streaming audio primer from Deliver Your Media
A guide for using digital audio to tell your story

Digital Audio Glossary
This glossary of digital audio terminology is on the Arts and Humanities Data Services from the United Kingdom.

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