The other day we had a guest speaker come into our ICT class and show us some more neat ideas for incorporating computers into our classrooms. He gave us a brief overview of Audacity, and we made a recording of everyone in the class saying a quote that someone had said to us that we had held onto for a long time. I thought this was very neat. The recording we created was sort of a motivational piece, which is one effective use of the program. I think this is just one possibility of many that this program could be used for in a classroom. I think students would love making recordings of different types for pretty much any class. One idea I thought might be kind of neat is if a class was going to read a novel together, the teacher could record himself or the class reading it and add all kinds of effects making a sort of audiobook that might be more interesting than simply reading the book; especially for something most people find dry like Shakespeare.
We also made a short motivational video using an iPhone. It was incredibly easy and quick. I realized that in classroom, a video could be a quick and easy project that students would most likely LOVE to do. They could make a video in almost any subject and edit it any way they wanted. Students could produce a documentary or a commercial or pretty much anything really. I think videos are a wonderful piece of media to bring into a classroom to help with the learning process.
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