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

Dad's breakfast

My Animoto Video

I just found this cool site to produce videos and share them.

Check out the video I made in about five minutes!

Computer Repair Class uses audio

In my computer repair class I recorded the sound of a bad power supply fan and a working one.  I then let the students listen to both files and detemine which one has bad bearings.

  http://audioboo.fm/boos/660544-power-supply-fan-1

http://audioboo.fm/boos/660545-power-supply-fan-2

Beyond the beauty

We are giving a description of our service trip to Guatemala. We also are attempting to gain financial support from viewers to support the projects. My problems was I wanted students to do most of the recording and they have done several slides that I gave them but I haven't been at LHS long enough to import their audio pieces in. I'm also having trouble inserting a dvd we made on it. We're having fun doing this but need more time together to finish. I discovered the students' laptops record better than my loaner computer.

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.

Brad Snyder's reflection

A-ha moments- I have tried Google voice with my classes to communicate the means in which they intend to use an upcoming project. During this trial I realized some of the many applications of this technology. I think I can give all students this number as a way to communicate confusions about a topic, so I can prepare to reteach the next day or simply prepare an answer for those unexpected questions. I also saw this as a great way to poll the class. We work out 3-4 MAP questions from a packet each week, and this would be a great way for each student to vote on the questions covered.

Laura Bauer- Google Voice

Students called my Google Voice # and left a message describing how they would use a formula in a real life situation. The messages were fun to listen to and the students seemed to enjoy it. The voice translation needs improvement.

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

Mrs. Creech's Music Class--Mrs. Joy's Class Singing "Try Again"

Child Dev. II - Google Voice

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 determining if their observation was descriptive or interpretive.

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?

Kindergarten garden at LEAP

Make your own slide show at Animoto.

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

Google voice--reading errors

Many of my students struggle with correct pronunciations when reading aloud in the class. In conjunction with another web based reading record program that I use, I decided to create a google voice account to assess he students oral reading errors.. It was extremely easy to set up and my students loved using it. I recorded several students reading various leveled books to determine which reading level was best as well as where the majority of the errors were occuring. It helped to cut my reading record assessments time in half and allowed me to access the data at home as well. This is an awesome new tool that I will definately use frequently! https://www.google.com/voice/fm/16667757169949883013/AHwOX_DIUbZXcE2PMJy1A14_Id8PKfd0TXZe7D3iB6EhmQnZr1SsH6pZYF9riVR9_bZL2oWTWN9UA79jBpdjL54tGw8D61lQyxIvcVWj15q5qUns9pbgmCNvy4i5pEw-tk0-U5UuCa3VJb4jnXlwmXa86NBnEDXB-A

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