A is for Audacity
How can audacity be used for educational purposes?
Audacity can be used to achieve speaking, viewing, and listening outcomes in English Language Arts. I have seen it used to create broadcasts and for students to listen to their own voices and self-evaluate their speaking abilities. I used it recently with a reader's theatre I was working on with my grade 5 and 6 students. They practiced their reader's theatre in groups of six and then recorded themselves reading the text. Then, they listened to themselves speaking and self-evaluated. They made a list of elements to work on and then re-recorded themselves, looking for improvement. A colleague in my school used audacity for students to record their personal narratives. They used another program called www.freesound.org to insert clips of specific sounds, creating a radio broadcasting program. A teacher could also use audacity to record instructions or oral reading for students that struggle with decoding and comprehension.
Audacity can be used to achieve speaking, viewing, and listening outcomes in English Language Arts. I have seen it used to create broadcasts and for students to listen to their own voices and self-evaluate their speaking abilities. I used it recently with a reader's theatre I was working on with my grade 5 and 6 students. They practiced their reader's theatre in groups of six and then recorded themselves reading the text. Then, they listened to themselves speaking and self-evaluated. They made a list of elements to work on and then re-recorded themselves, looking for improvement. A colleague in my school used audacity for students to record their personal narratives. They used another program called www.freesound.org to insert clips of specific sounds, creating a radio broadcasting program. A teacher could also use audacity to record instructions or oral reading for students that struggle with decoding and comprehension.
Can I see some samples of student work?
Below are a few examples of projects my students have created.
Below are a few examples of projects my students have created.
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