I had a blast putting together my audio piece. My students are working on autobiographies focusing on musicians and poets. So to put together an example of one of my favorite singers was awesome. Audacity was very user friendly, I just need to work on getting familiar with some of its advanced features. As a read from parts of Ella Fitzgerald biography, I played one of her songs in the background. Now mind you that I just read first and when I played it back I thought it was boring. So I pulled out one of her CD's and recorded it into the program and 'joined' them together. I felt as if I was back in the recording studio, only this time engineering instead of singing. My students got a kick out of the recording and couldn't wait to use their creativity to spice up their research. Some of them used poems or lyrics as their intro or outro to their audio pieces, while others turned poems into hip hop masterpieces to orginal music that they created. They were so excited about their work they e-mailed them to the principal, who in turn played them over the PA system during morning announcements for black history month.
This project has taken on a whole new meaning for my students. They want to put together audio pieces for Women History Month for the month of March. They have already began with the first 10 women they want to acknowledge and are researching 10 more. I am grateful that it has been so well received by the campus that each department has asked if they could use this technology to give facts of the day for their related subject matter. I look forward to this spilling over into animation in the classroom for all subjects as well.
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