Create sound stories for images using free sound effects websites, as my Grade 2 students are doing for the school arts festival.Promote reading development by recording kids reading books, as Colin Becker outlines in his post on Emerging Readers.Record speeches to provide evidence of learning, and upload to Glogster (a wonderful online poster tool) to share with a wider audience, as I’m doing with Grade 4 students for their environmental unit.Mr Balcom‘s students created music tracks for their video podcasts. Celeste Hopkins and her Grade 2 students use Audacity to create podcasts of book reviews, reports and poetry readings.

I recommend checking out what Kim Cofino and colleagues are doing with Podcasts at ISB. Create Podcasts – limited only by your imagination.One of the Mandarin teachers at our school, Wendy Liao, did this very successfully with Grade 4 students.

Promote language learning – record kids speaking in one of their language classes then upload to Voki to create speaking Avatars.Make an audio/radio advertisement – My Grade 3 students are using Audacity to advertise products the school produces to support service learning for their Advertising unit.

Here are 10 great ways you could use Audacity with your students. * Change the speed or pitch of a recording. * Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. * Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. * Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. To quote their website, Audacity can be used to: NB: The Mac equivalent, GarageBand is another great option if you are at a Mac school, but in the interests of all users, I’ll refer to Audacity. It can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems, and the best part about it is that it is free! Audacity is a great audio editor for use in the classroom.

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