Audio Project

For my audio project, the students called in to explain how a room is heated up by convection. We talked about convection and observed a convection current in a beaker of water that was heated up on a hot plate. I put rice in the water so they could visually see the current. We talked about the process in great detail, wrote down explanations and drew diagrams. A few days later, I gave the students the audio assignment. They first said their name and then started explaining how convection works to heat up a living room.

I really enjoyed listening to the responses. Over all the kids did well answering the question. I recommended that the students would first write it out and then call in the answer. Most kids did this and it worked well. We played some of the responses in class and the kids loved it. They also loved seeing how the transcription was so different than the actual words the person used.

Some students messed up the first time, so they called back a second time to restart. The only complaint, if any, was that an "anonymous" student rapped a song about wearing pants. The nice thing is that it is easy to delete.

Audio Project Idea- Freese

My Child Development II students are observing in the Lindbergh Early Childhood Center on Tuesdays.  After their first visit they were to record an observation.  They were to state the gender of the child, approx. age and what behavior they observed.  After this we went over their observation skills by listening to their recording and then determined if their observation was descriptive or interpretive.  Most of my students participated in the activity.  It was a little difficult to understand what they were saying at times. 

I used Google Voice.  I had my foods students tell me whether they wanted to have any changes made to their lab groups and if they were having any problems in their groups.  I thought it would be a way they could talk to me without worrying about other students hearing them. 
It was okay.  Some of the written responses were hard to decipher.  I could not understand some of the voice messages.  It took longer to go through all of the messages than it would have taken to go through written responses.  The thing that bothered me the most was having my cell phone ring so often.  Perhaps I can make changes to avoid this.  I would like for the messages to just go to gmail.
Here is a link to a good message: https://www.google.com/voice/fm/03424515620539946930/AHwOX_AvPAKNzYW2ijQHqLrxQ0gqQYwuo2A_2ZgeETT-Qi0mP2Z0-xXFZLVYv4SGkp8kqk6LyKDJekNnBq-8RByzk_Mp9pZSiIaHWdWIR24yaaJlqXKsAu2x4xk1v8Z51VkD2C8n0PSHt5pNOquBHcPI9muo3jtwvQ

Drinen, c12, Davitt, audio

In our Civil Law unit in Business Law students will practice their advocacy skills by arguing for either the plaintiff or the defendant in a specific scenario provided. Students will prepare a 1 minute argument that they will present to the class. The argument must detail why their side should prevail. To prepare, they will record themselves using their own devices and then playback their argument to critique and improve for the final argument that will be live in front of the class. Students will need to document what they liked about their argument, what needs work, and how they plan to improve for the final argument in front of the class.

Blackwood C12 Audio Davitt

This is the sounds of what the planer in the shop sounds like when it is started. The reason for doing this is so students understand that they need to wait for the machine to come up to full speed before putting the wood into the planer. I will use this when we do safety lessons at the beginning of the year.  I think that a video will be much better, then I can show what to do also. The benfit would be that I don't have 28 kids around one machine.http://audioboo.fm/boos/660270-planer-sounds A better mic would be great. It would be great to post safety videos to my facebook page so the kids could go back and review.

Pryor Audio Project

I used audacity to make a "vocal key" for my students to check each other's weekly MAP packet
that we do on Friday.  I will use this tomorrow (2/9/12) in class.  I think it will go well.  I had some problems getting it to save and reopen on my desktop

Entrepreneur archives

I didn't have the google voice set up in time to do it this year, but am planning on it for next fall. All of my students interview entrepreneurs as a class assingment. I will now have students create a recording of the interview using Google Voice and then I will keep an archive of all the interviews on my blog for students to use based on what type of business they are interested in using. Here are the questions they ask the entrepreneurs: Ask the Entrepreneur Student name: Name of Entrepreneur: Name of Business: Interview a local entrepreneur, ask the following questions: 1. How old were you when you began working at your first job? 2. When you were younger and just beginning to work, did you enjoy working? Why or why not? 3. Did you have ideas about how things could be done better at your first few jobs? Did you suggest changes to your boss? Where your ideas ever used? 4. When did you first get the idea of being your own boss or starting your own business? 5. Do you think you could run any business successfully? Why or why not? 6. How much time do you spend a week working? Would you like to work more or less? Explain. 7. How important do you think a high school education is to being a successful entrepreneur? A college education? 8. Of all your skills and abilities, which contributes most to your success as a business owner? Why? 9. What mistakes or weaknesses do you think most often lead to failure for entrepreneurs? 10. What advice would you give to someone who was considering starting their own business someday?

Commercials 2012

Original commercial project using student devices. Apps video star and splice were used for the effects.

Schneider Audo Project

The project provided three students, of various abilities, the chance to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a journal entry. Students were asked to write a journal entry describing how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.

High Student - https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_AlJmlp33zNYSIEQc4-Fc3vAIFjaDjau6pzEUJ3Vl4eA5bbBDEVcZeNEHfmpx4-AkXiIsy8VOEe8SeoCmgEgDq_yr-ezBty3jQSJFZyT4AFaHYn8p_kkEM6gSVdkRXmc3fOMsdMzscLIjsv_q6f_CMqAuKhiQ

Low Student -
https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_AxaEigQQ_KDVzIiCHYs8aoaYTb5l9akmgKaaJicCU6I2e1A5DF-I1IcBRZl7ydRRi8HDNVXVsHSvkss9d1V9lv5xJH2kSsvGkfNJKNccb8hMXY7mGpQ8GnHIzcliaa1mhVrkfRBAce1wblC9_g0EcBUJFKuw

Mid-Level Student -
https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_BEpxVem7kCt58kzCJAdWiUvQrWz936H5RaQ1YTwriYmKdDtWcuTcmnEU03FDURUqHyNFokvc8cni_iwsqT1boj8CmvxbJ2es_hKL2degy19Y7lJnlgftDh5g9Bnc1OcFB8ROJ31UJlE8TsIILVOpwwYDzffg

Kerri Ryan's Audio Project

My audio project turned out to be a lot of fun for my students.  We are working on Famous American projects in our class and along with their power point presentations, they are going to take 3 or 4 facts about their Famous American and make it into a "Who Am I?" quiz/game.  I have only had 2 students do it so far as we are still researching.  However, they are excited to use Google Voice for many things in our classroom! There was nothing challenging after I met with Colin and he showed me how to embed Google Voice into my blog.  It's so simple.

Caleb's Famous American

Google Voice and Math vocab

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1355d857e4af6043

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1355da3e0b698335

The audio project was a little challenging for me.  I had my students call the phone number on google voice and tell me definitions to math vocab words.  We are really pushing knowing these definitions since the MAP test is right around the corner.  Google voice was not able to correctly transcribe any of the messages, even when I chose to talk.  This made it more difficult because I had to sit there and play each message instead of being able to quickly read an email.  My students thought it was fun but it is not something that I would put into my lesson plans for the day.

Laura Heller's Audio Project

http://mrshellersartroom.blogspot.com/2012/02/hailey.html

Practice Makes Perfect

I have a student who speaks very softly when she reads but  writes great stories and wants to read them to the class.  I demonstrated the audio and told her she could practice reading her story but she would have to speak louder so the class could hear it when I played it back.  It worked!  Now her classmates are picking the Writing Center and are looking forward to reading their books to the class.  She is now working on another book.

In Art class at Kennerly, I recorded a student giving basic directions for a project we are finishing, weaving on a loom. I used google voice and it was very simple. I posted it with photos of projects on my blog:

http://kennerlyart.blogspot.com/

Mrs. Johnston...students use iTunes and robots

My 5th grade Space and Robotics class explored the concept of a "flash mob" dance event by watching selected YouTube videos. Discussion revolved around how people participating in a flash mob event use social media to share songs, dance choreography, video, and more. While watching, we frequently paused the video and talked about how we might translate the human dance movements into robotic programming commands for our NXT LEGO robots. How could we use audio as an inspiration for a programming challenge! The class selected a song and opened it in iTunes. Working in small groups, each group worked to choreograph a robot dance for a 15 second portion of the song. The choreography was designed using programming commands that dictated robot movement and controlled any sensors added to the robot. The program was then downloaded to the robot for testing. Eventually all choreographed portions of the song will be combined, downloaded to all robots, and then the robots will, hopefully, have a flash mob dance to our song.

Audio Lesson-Beth Bridwell

My kindergartners have been working on rhyming words. I had them call my google voice number for "homework" and they had to give me some examples of rhyming pairs.

Google Voice in the German classroom

I have set up a Google voice account and had my 8th graders call in and describe their clothing to me in German.  I think it worked very well with 2 exceptions:
1.  I gave the kids the wrong number the first time (!), so it didn't work (obviously!).

2.  There are still about 20% of the kids who didn't call in at all and have a 0 on the assignment.  I think this number will decrease as I give more of these assignments.

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Derickson - Audio Project

Students created Power Point or PhotoStory presentation to represent their families.  They had to have pictures, captions, and audio in Spanish to go with each picture.  For example:  They would have a picture of their family at the beach, the caption would say "Mi familia a la playa"  and then they would add audio that would say who is in the picture, what they were doing, etc.

The challenging part of this was audio that would not work with PhotoStory on certain laptops and students who said they added audio, but it was no where to be found.  Also, PhotoStory would not play the story...the audio would be there but no pictures, so we had to view them like we were editing them (Not a huge deal, but frustrating.)

Audio Project

For my geometry project I enouraged the students to add and audio component to it. They turn the project in next week.

Audio Vocabulary Lesson

For my audio project my students took thier vocabulary lessons and instead of a weekly vocabulary quiz I had them use thier smart device to record them pronouncing the word correctly, giving the proper definition, and using it in a sentence. The lesson went very smoothly. I had my students buddy up with the person next to them and share thier smart devices to do the project. I had to lend my iphone to a pair that I trusted as well.

All in All the students really liked it. They have asked to do it again and I will. There are some issues that need to be tweaked a bit but it really worked well.