Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
DIVISION OF BOHOL
Media and Information Literacy
SECOND QUARTER
Quarter : 2 Week : 8 Day : 9 Activity No. : 9
Competency: : Describe the different dimension audio information and media.
Objective : Identify the basic elements in creating a visual presentation.

Topic : Audio Information and Media

Materials : Hand-outs, Smart Phones/Laptop/Tab

Presentations,
Reference : Media and Information Literacy Curriculum Guide by: Media
and Information Literacy by Ched
Media and Information Literacy Teaching Guide by: Boots C.
Liquigan, Diwa Learning System Inc.
Copyrights : For Classroom Use
Concept Notes
Audio- sound especially when recorded. Transmitted, or reproduced
Media communication that uses audio or recordings to deliver and transfer
information through the means of sound. May refer to audio formats
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Types of Audio Information
1. Radio Broadcast – live or recorded sent through waves to reach a wide
audience
2. Music- vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce
beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion
3. Sound Recordings- 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 or 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- magnetic tapes on which sound can be recorded
2. CD(compact Disc) a plastic-fabricated, circular medium for recording,
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storing and playing back computer data
1 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 (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, remote computing devices
5. Computer Hard Drive- second art storage devices for storing audio file
6. Interner/Cloud – websites or file repositories for retrieving audio files, and
more precisely the files are stored in some datacenter full or 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 players
2. M4A/AAC (MPEG4 Audion/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. WMA (Windows Media Audio) – is an audio data compression technology
developed by Microsoft and used with Windows Media Player UNITS OF SOUND
1. Decibel – (Db)noise of sound measurement
2. Hertz – (hz) unit of sound frequency
3. Phon – unit of subjective loudness

4. WAV – is a Microsoft audio file format standard for using an audio bitstream on
PCs. It has become a standard file format for game sounds

ACTIVITY 2. Name the following storage of audio information

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