I am almost finished with my technology GOAL. I have all of my student’s sound bites from the trial and now I am getting ready to post them to our website. The only thing that I have found to be a problem is that audacity has been very slow. I attribute this to the fact that I have ton of sound clips on one saved file. It seems to stream better when I cut and past the clips into one clip. I am wondering how many different recording programs are out there? I use audacity because I took it from one of the other classes we took and it is free but I would think there might be better programs that allow you to do more and it is my intention to look into it after the school year is done. Other than wondering about recording programs, my plan has worked to perfection so far. I have been able to do what I set out to do and I am now getting ready to watch my student’s blog about other class’s trials.
I have learned that my students are excited about this project and constantly ask me when the podcast will be up so they can blog about it. I also learned that whenever you incorporate audio into a lesson you need to plan to have at least a week for editing purposes. It has taken me more than a week this go around because it is new but in the future I think it will only take a week. Hopefully my student’s enthusiasm will spill over into their trial responses. We’ll see!
I think the only real modification that I need to have in this plan is the time allotment that I have given myself to complete it. Otherwise, it is working very well.
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Eric:
ReplyDeleteWe used Audacity quite a bit this year and it worked very well. If it is slowing down because of the number of clips you have in a project file, you might be able to export all of them as an mp3 file, then go to the project menu and import the mp3 file. Exporting will combine all of the clips into the one file and may then speed up the process.
Sounds like a fun project, and any project where the students are engaged is one in which they are learning. Good luck!
Chris Lorenz
I think it is awesome that you have made such great progress with your goals. I have used audacity many times and have found that it works pretty good. What kind of equipment are you using? Perhaps that could be the issue. Also are you using the latest version of the program?
ReplyDeleteGreat work! Do you mean that you need a week to listen to them all??? Have you thought about peer editing or assessing? Not sure if it would work with your project, but might take some of the pressure from you. Then when the project is done, you would have more time to actually grade them.
ReplyDeleteRichard and Chris,
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that audacity versions are constantly available and that older versions take longer to play. I think the key would be to export them in a timely fashion which is a small thing but something that always seems to be the last on the list when I get to the bell and have been telling my students how to set up for recording their clips. Thanks guys, I’ll look into it.
Eric
Kim,
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea! I tried my project out this year but I think your idea is the next step to streamline it! Thanks!
Eric