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Journal on Sound Unit This unit was very illuminating and interesting for me. I had never worked with sound files before. I found the readings very helpful. I’m a visual learner so had not considered how helpful it would be to provide audio to students. My sons are much more audio-oriented – I learned that reading aloud to them when they were younger. They still prefer books on tape to reading. It would be rather simple to augment classroom delivery with audio and some of the suggestions posted on the discussion boards were really useful. In addition to using in a presentation, I could see having students record poems, speeches, quotations, or my recording things that could then be available to students and parents for missed work or re-enforcement. I hadn’t thought of the logistical difficulties of having 30 students record sound clips without a contained environment – I can just see teachers trying to use coat closets, resource rooms, libraries, or any place they can find in a school where they can control the environment from extraneous sounds. I learned a lot from the recording, ripping and mixing exercises. I had recorded my voice before, but I didn’t know how easy it would be to rip from a CD – no wonder it’s so popular! The mixing exercise took me a long time to accumulate all the different pieces and put them together but it was worth it. I’ll be able to use it in class. I liked that Audacity program a lot and am going to recommend we use it in our schools. I found a few “tutorial articles” that helped me learn to use it from PCPlus Multimedia. I’ll definitely use the material I learned in this unit to share with many other teachers. |