Mrs. Morrison began by creating a general script for the podcast, and each student was given a part. When I arrived at her class, everybody was ready to learn how to record their script using GarageBand. After a 25 minute lesson on how to use the software, each student was given a headset, and the began recording their script.
As students practiced their scripts, they realized that we all use little idiosyncracies in our speech patterns such as “um” , “uhh” and so on. They kept re-recording their parts and working on making their recordings sound natural. Soon the class felt they were ready to record the final version.Mrs. Morrison had the students record their script in a quiet room. It only took about 30 minutes to record the entire class. The students had their script with them as they recorded, however they had practiced so much that they focused on sounding natural, and most students required only one take.
Recording the final take was the easiest part of all because the students we so prepared. What a phenomenal class!The next step was to the edit images that Mrs. Morrison and I had collected. The students edited the images in a free online editing site called Picnik. (Side note: Another good free online editing site is Fotoflexer.com)
Lastly, Mrs Morrison inserted the edited images into the enhanced podcast track of GarageBand and saved the project as a podcast. The class watched the podcast on their big screen. It was exciting to see how everything came together at last.Due to a couple of computer glitches and technical server issues, Mrs. Morrison and I decided to upload the podcast to the T4 server. Because the T4 team uses a podcast template, I imported the podcast track into iMovieHD, added some transitions and text as well as the T4 Tips Podcast logo. The podcast can be found on the T4 website. Just click on T4 Tips Podcasts.
A big shout out to Mrs. Morrison and her class for all their hard work. I thoroughly enjoyed each student. They were extremely courteous, hard workers, and a lot of fun!
JOKE FOR YOUR CLASS:
How did the farmer fix his jeans?
With a cabbage patch. (hee, hee)
3 comments:
Very nice work. Way to go.
I brought my 6th graders in to listen to their podcasts. Mrs Morrison has pretty much convinced me to do one with my students. I need to work on writing a script.
Bonnie - I'm responding here to your questions on my K12 online presentation.
Yes, Lisa and I both decided that since our students used our gmail accounts as log-ins and students only used them while in our classrooms under our direct supervision we were with-in the spirit of the "rules." We talked about the +1, +2 log-in too, but we accessed all the stories in one place with the same log-in. We weren't too worried about students "messing" with other groups stories (and we both constantly harp on ethics with our classes) and they didn't.
In addition, the Google Docs blog asked us to write about our experience on their blog and they knew the ages of our students, sooo???? ....
Brian
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