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Today we’ll get our feet (or maybe our ears?) wet with Audacity.   We’ll practice some basic editing techniques: downloading sound files from the Internet, opening those files in Audacity, layering audio tracks, adjusting volume, cropping, fading, and exporting. Download both

Last week, many of you had a chance to poke around in Dreamweaver.  For today’s tech task, we’ll jump back in. Set up your site in Dreamweaver (go to Site > New Sites).  You’ll need to create a new folder

For this week’s tech task, I am hoping that we’ll be able to finish up with our HTML hand-coding and still have some time to spend beginning to get familiar with Dreamweaver.  Here are this week’s tasks: Add a post to

If you would like to download Dreamweaver (DW) so that you can work with it at home, there are two (free) options: Download Dreamweaver as a 30-day free trial.  This is a fully functional version of DW, but will stop

For this week’s tech task, you’ll be creating a web page using  HMTL and TextEdit, then uploading the page to your account on the UMass web server (note that this is different from UDrive).  This task has 3 objectives: 1)

Let’s hop in the time machine and visit a time when the concept of “Internet” was still new and strange for some folks.  In this video clip, Today Show hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel ask, “What is Internet?” (1994):