Having attended the ICT Breifing on Thursday and being reminded about Audacity I decided to give it a go with my class. I already had it planned in but was going to do it in Textease so just made a slight alteration. My year 4 class picked it up really easily and it was a good tool for getting them to speak clearly and use the wave patterns to help control their voices.
I am going to try and post the results on our blog so they can show their parents.
4 comments:
I'm really pleased it inspired you to give it a go. I love getting this kind of feedback. Would love to see a link to your class blog - I'm sure we could learn from it. Well done Alex!
Our class blog is:
alligators.ethink.org.uk
It's not very active and I haven't posted the poems yet. If you have any ideas for improvements they would be greatly appreciated.
It seems Derbyshire schools are going Audacity mad! I've spoken to another school today who was so excited about it they've been trying it with their class. A really nice idea - getting children to cut and paste words to make a sentence. I guess this would work for instruction writing and any kind of ordering activity too. They are exporting their work as a wav to textease...
Stretton Handley Primary School children have used Audacity to record some radio ads for sun lotion. It's great how the kids can make their recordings in managable chunks so they don't have do all the script in one go.
A couple of children also composed and recorded an "Easter Round" sung to the tune of London's Burning. They only had to sing it through once then make copies of the track which they shifted along the timeline to make a perfect round! They then added some instrumentation.
Have a look at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioWoolley
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