WEEKLY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Solomon P. Lozada National High School

Media and Information Literacy – Grade 12
2nd Quarter – Week 6

Audio Information and Media

Competencies:
 Describes the different dimensions of audio information and media. (MIL11/12AIM-
IVd-11)
 Comprehends how audio information and media is/are formally and informally
produced, organized, and disseminated. (MIL11/12AIM-IVd-12)
 Evaluates the reliability and validity of audio information and media and its/their
sources using selection criteria. (MIL11/12AIM-IVd-13)
 Produces and evaluates a creative audio-based presentation using design principle
and elements. (MIL11/12AIM-IVd-14)

Objectives: At the end of the week, students are expected to:

 Define the different types of audio information;
 Analyze the ways to store an audio information; and
 Organize a plan in creating a Podcast.

Key Concepts:

What is an Audio?
It is a sound, especially when recorded, transmitted or reproduced.

Audio Media
It is a media communication that uses audio or recordings to deliver and transfer
information through the means of sound.

Types of Audio Information

1) Radio Broadcast – a live or recorded audio sent through radio waves to reach a
wide audience.
2) Music – a vocal or instrumental sound combined in such a way as to produce beauty
of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
3) Sound Recording – a recording of an interview, meeting, or any sound from the
environment.
4) Sound Clips/Effects – any sound artificially reproduced to create an effect in a
dramatic presentation (ex. sound of a storm, or a door).
5) Audio Podcast – a digital audio or video file of recording, usually part of a themed
series that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or a computer.

Ways to Store Audio Information

1) Tape – a magnetic tape on which sound can be recorded.
2) CD (Compact Disc) – a plastic-fabricated, circular medium for recording, storing,
and playing back audio, video, and computer data.
3) USB Drive – an external flash drive, small enough to carry on a key ring that can be
used with any computer that has a USB Port.
4) Memory Card (aka Flash Memory Card or Storage Card) – is a small storage
medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small,
portable, or remote computing devices.
5) Computer Hard Drive – secondary storage devices for storing audio file.

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 6) Internet/Cloud – a website or file repositories for retrieving audio files, and more
precisely the files are stored in some datacenter full of servers that is connected to
the Internet.

Audio File Formats

1) MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) – a common format for consumer audio, as well as a
standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most
digital audio players.
2) M4A/AAC (MPEG4 Audio/Advanced Audio Coding) – an audio coding standard
for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format,
AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rate.
3) WAV (Waveform Audio File Format) – is a Microsoft audio file format standard for
storing an audio bit stream on PCs. It has become a standard file format for game
sounds, among others.
4) WMA (Windows Media Audio) – is an audio data compression technology
developed by Microsoft and used with Windows Media Player.

Units of Sound
1) Decibel
 or simply dB
 noise of sound measurement
2) Hertz
 or simply Hz
 unit of sound frequency
3) Phon
 Unit of subjective loudness

Characteristics and Purposes of Sound

1) Volume – the intensity of a sound.
2) Tone – the audible characteristic of a sound.
3) Pitch – is how high or low a sound is.
4) Loudness – it refers to the magnitude of the sound heard.

Purposes of a Sound:
 Give instruction or information.
 Provide feedback.
 To personalize or customize.

Elements of Sound Design – the objects or things that we have to work with:
1) Dialogue – speech, conversation, and voice-over.
2) Sound Effects – any sound other than music or dialogue.
3) Music – vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to
produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

Principles of Sound Design – the techniques for combining the different elements or
object.
1) Mixing – the combination, balance and control of multiple sound elements.
2) Pace – time control, editing, order of events (linear, non-linear or multi-linear).
3) Stereo Imaging – using left and right channel for depth. This refers to the aspect of
sound recording and reproduction.
4) Transition – how you get from one segment or element to another.

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 Types of Transitions – how you get from one segment or element to another.
1) Segue – one element stops, the next begins (“cut” in film).
2) Cross-Fade – one element fades out, the next fades in, and they overlap on the way.
3) V-Fade – first element fades to inaudible before the second element begins.
4) Waterfall – as first element fades out, the second element begins at full volume.
Better for voice transitions, than for effects.

Hearing VS Listening
 Hearing – the act of perceiving sound by the ear.
 Listening – requires concentration so that your brain processes meaning from words
and sentences. Listening leads to learning.

General procedure for creating a podcast:

a) Planning – choosing a topic and answering the guide questions.
b) Pre-recording – choosing your equipment and software for recording.
c) Creating your Podcast – audio recording and converting to MP3.
d) Uploading your Podcast – choosing where to upload through RSS Feed.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Instructions: Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is a digital audio or video file or recording that can be downloaded from a website to a
media player or a computer.
a) Sound Recording c) Radio Broadcast
b) Audio Podcast d) Music

2. It is a recording of an interview, meeting, or any sound from the environment.

a) Sound Clips/Effects c) Music
b) Sound Recording d) Audio Podcast

3. It is a live or recorded audio sent through radio waves to reach a wide audience.
a) Audio Podcast c) Radio Podcast
b) Music d) Sound Recording

4. It is a vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form,

harmony, and expression of emotion.
a) Music c) Audio Podcast
b) Sound Recording d) Radio Podcast

5. It is a sound artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation.

a) Sound Recording c) Music
b) Radio Podcast d) Sound Clips/Effects

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 Activity 2
Instructions: Identify the definition provided in Column A by matching it to its corresponding
illustration in Column B. Choose the letter only.

Column A Column B

A)
1. It is an external flash drive, small enough
to carry on a key ring that can be used with
any computer that has a USB Port.

B)
2. It is a secondary storage device for storing
an audio file.

C)
3. It is plastic-fabricated, circular medium for
recording, storing, and playing back audio,
video, and computer data.

D)
4. It is a magnetic tape on which sound can
be recorded.

5. It is a small storage medium used to store E)

data such as text, pictures, audio, and video,
for use on small, portable, or remote
computing devices.

Activity 3/Performance Task

Instructions: Create a plan in creating a Podcast. Your answers should be in a paragraph
form. Write your output in a bond paper.

Procedures in creating a Podcast:

1) Design a Podcast about the new normal learning delivery mode.
2) As a guide for the podcast planning, answer the questions below (Media and
Information Design Framework).
Component Guide Questions Answers
Who are the possible readers of this
Target Audience
infographic?
Sender/Author Who is the author of this infographic?
What is the tone of the text in the
infographic?
What are the sample phrases or taglines
Key content that you will use to relate the
information?
What are the facts/figures that you will
include in the infographic?
Purpose What is the intention of the infographic?
Form/Style What are the font types, colors and
shapes that you will use in the

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 infographic?
What are the words or phrases that you
need to emphasize in the infographic?
How will you organize your text and
visual elements?
Medium/Format Is this the best platform to use? Why?

Podcasts Rubric
Very Needs
Excellent Good Satisfactory
Criteria Satisfactory Improvement
(5) (4) (2)
(3) (1)
Content is
accurate but Content is
Content is
some accurate but
questionable. Content is
Content is required some required
Information is inaccurate.
accurate and all information is information
not Information is not
required missing is missing
Content presented in a presented in a
information is and/or not and/or not
logical logical
presented in a presented in a presented in a
order, making it order, making it
logical order. logical order, logical order,
difficult to difficult to follow.
but is still making it
follow.
generally easy difficult to follow.
to follow.
Presentation Presentation Presentation is
Presentation
flows well flows well. unorganized.
flows well.
and logically. Tools Tools are not
Some tools are
Presentation are used used in a Presentation has
used to
reflects correctly relevant no
show
extensive use of Each member’s manner. flow. Insufficient
acceptable
Presentation of tools in a information is Lacking some of information and
understanding.
Information creative way. represented the lacking some of
Each member’s
Each member’s and identified members’ the
information
information is with information/ member’s
is represented
represented their name. and or information.
and
and identified Overall information is
identified with
with their presentation is not
their name.
name. interesting. identified.
Some grammar Some grammar
No grammar Few grammar
errors. errors. Many grammar
errors. Text is errors. Text is in
Mechanics Text is in Most of text is in errors.
in authors’ own authors’ own
authors’ own authors’ Text is copied.
words. words.
words. own words.

REFERENCES

https://www.slideshare.net/markjhonoxillo/audio-information-and-media

ANSWERS KEY

Activity 1 Activity 2

1. B 1. C
2. B 2. E
3. C 3. D
4. A 4. B
5. D 5. A

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Solomon P. Lozada National High School
School ID No.: 304909
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Amag, Bayabas, Surigao del Sur