OK, let me start from scratch cuz I have no idea what you have for gear to work with at this point.
If you only want audio, plug any mini jack microphone into your mic jack on any laptop or PC if you have them in the same room. For audio, download Audacity and Lame (both free) and set up to record from your computer. Once you can hear what you want, through audacity, you'll be able to record into audacity and play back.
If you want video, take any digital camcorder with a good memory stick and plant it on a tripod, hit record play away. When done, take the stick from the camcorder and pop it in a card reader slot on your PC. If not, download the clips from the sticks by connecting the camcorder to your PC and copy/move the files from the stick to your hard disk.
That was the fast and dirty version.
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