Integrating and Using Digital Audio Tools in the Classroom.
Aside from the obvious benefit for auditory learners, there are unlimited ways to use audio tools, software, and platforms to better engage students in their work. In addition, they are of permanent record once recorded, and classrooms can even create their own library of storybook tellings, interviews, subject mini-lectures, as well as archive projects either individually or collectively.
I particularly like the text's suggestion of a "This Day in History" podcast - classrooms could even create their own digital time capsules, which would remain undamaged by time, unlike traditional buried boxes and collections (as fun as they are also). In addition, it also suggests using audio tools for Reader's Theater, an excellent idea, and one in which it could be replayed for others (including a classroom of a younger grade) with a sense of pride. And, finally, the text makes a wonderful and creative suggestion for using integrating audio narratives by embedding the recording within an individual or classroom book by using My Storybook Maker,
There are many other formats for creating as well as publishing audio recordings and podcasts. Audacity is available for creating recorded content, and, for instance, PodBean is available for free hosting of podcasts with an RSS feed others may subscribe to. I personally used my laptop's basic audio recording tool, then uploaded and published it to PodBean to host. I chose a poem from one of my favorite childhood books, and book information is included in the beginning of the podcast.
Teachers could do this for parent announcements on their classroom announcement page (more common than not these days), as well as a weekly shout-out to individual students (among other endless and creative purposes).
Normally I consider myself fairly in touch with digital literacy and skills, but this course has shown me that I was embarrassingly unaware of some of the most basic and valuable tools - ones I plan to use, and not infrequently.
If you'd like to visit my podcast page or follow it at PodBean, simply click here.
I particularly like the text's suggestion of a "This Day in History" podcast - classrooms could even create their own digital time capsules, which would remain undamaged by time, unlike traditional buried boxes and collections (as fun as they are also). In addition, it also suggests using audio tools for Reader's Theater, an excellent idea, and one in which it could be replayed for others (including a classroom of a younger grade) with a sense of pride. And, finally, the text makes a wonderful and creative suggestion for using integrating audio narratives by embedding the recording within an individual or classroom book by using My Storybook Maker,
There are many other formats for creating as well as publishing audio recordings and podcasts. Audacity is available for creating recorded content, and, for instance, PodBean is available for free hosting of podcasts with an RSS feed others may subscribe to. I personally used my laptop's basic audio recording tool, then uploaded and published it to PodBean to host. I chose a poem from one of my favorite childhood books, and book information is included in the beginning of the podcast.
Overall, I enjoyed the learning process - to embed, I had to google and then go directly into the HTML, but in the end - now I am proud I know how to do this!
Teachers could do this for parent announcements on their classroom announcement page (more common than not these days), as well as a weekly shout-out to individual students (among other endless and creative purposes).
Normally I consider myself fairly in touch with digital literacy and skills, but this course has shown me that I was embarrassingly unaware of some of the most basic and valuable tools - ones I plan to use, and not infrequently.
If you'd like to visit my podcast page or follow it at PodBean, simply click here.
I like your thought of using audio tools for the children to record their own stories, and have their own "classroom library" to listen to.
ReplyDeleteI struggled using Audacity, and I didn't have a microphone, so I also used another app, and it made it much easier also! I really liked your podcast too!