Also, if you are doing it for students with disabilities, it seems that it would fall under ADA or something by making it accessible to students with disabilities.
Of course it won't matter if I can't even get the program to work. It seems to be recording, but I can't get it to play so I have no idea if it's not recording or just not playing!!…
6th. Those should actually be better as some are going to include Flip Videos that they themselves made (commercials) and audio that they made using audacity for their jingles and slogans (that way there is less writing on the page- not sure if that is a good thing or not)
Anyhow please feel free to use them as examples during your conferences
Eric…
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There is also a link to my Ning where you can see 5th graders using Jamstudio (recording into Audacity in the background to make their own backing tracks for rap, pop etc)
Feedback would be most welcome…
gether a list of essential (hopefully free) software for the students to use. I'd got the usual things - pdf reader, audacity, VLC media player, Open Office, Wink etc. but there some great suggestions here that I need to explore.
:-) Thanks again
Clive…
. You'll just need to make your students' parents sign a permission form (see attached file).
So what do you teach ? How old are your students ? It's great to "meet" American teachers !
I'm looking forward to hearing your students' contributions. ;-))
Emmanuelle…
ld do the recording. Then if you have a learning management system or intranet where they can share the podcasts, others can download them to their mobile phones/ipods. Listening is a great way to learn. I have also used podcasts on excursions.
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Added by Bernadette at 3:13pm on December 12, 2010
yed around with Audacity but it's way more complicated than we need. Teachers just want to record and then post to their class website. It's easy finding somebody else's content, but we want our own. Ideas and suggestions are extremely welcome.
Thanks, Fran…
aint where Pshop is not available. Audacity is limited by not being able to import music into it - I'm sure there is a way but I can't remember how I did it - or maybe that was on MovieMaker.
Firefox is going on as an alternative web browser but unfortunately we use Outlook Web Access and somehow Mozilla doesn't present it well so we can't make it default.
I also plan to install OpenOffice and Scriber (DTP) on the network this summer so there is an alternative to MSOffice and Publisher. Most students have Works at home and it is frustrating.
So far that's it. There is a typing tutor we use as well - nothing fancy but it does the job.
I love the software that I can get the students to download because we don't get much curriculum time so homework is where the great skills are developed.
I'll be trying several of the applications named above. GIMPSHOP. NVU web design (the problem I mentioned above is huge when we come to dreamweaver - no one has that at home); UNFREEZ; PIVOT; levelator; CamStudio (for me);
I'll feedback how I get on if I manage anything worth talking about.…
podcast days when we´ll all go, the students will take their outlines, and they´ll all record the podcast at once.
Their homework that evening is to do the editing. To try to minimize the work, as they do the podcast, when they hear themselves make a mistake, I suggest that they do a long pause, and then say the correct version of what they wanted to communicate. That's easy to see when you're editing, so you know that those are the spots where you need to cut out segments. I recommend that they use Audacity, because it´s free, but many of them have Macs, and so their preference is to use Garage Band.
The tricky thing is to explain that saving an Audacity/Garage Band file is not the same as exporting an audio file that everyone can listen to. Also, I have to go over setting permissions for the files once they´re in the cloud so that the links actually work when you´re at the blog and trying to open the podcast file. When the students do their very first podcasts, I have them bring their computers into class, and I walk them through the above steps - but it doesn´t always stick the first time :)…