We had a great first day of school! It’s such an exciting time of year. I love the sights of all their bright shiny faces, their brand new tennis shoes, and the smells of a brand new box of crayons. Today Room 113 also began their recording careers on our wiki.
I chose a relatively simple project to ease all 31 students into the world of global sharing on our wiki. I decided we would record my students praying. We prayed the Hail Mary. This prayer was said especially for a mom in our school family who is very ill. Many of my students have already been praying for this mom so it was very heartfelt.
The heartfelt version was Take 1. I use GarageBand to record my students and use a USB microphone from Logitech. They did a great job but it was very quiet. I showed them the sound waves that the recording made. They noticed the correlation between the quiet sounds and smaller waves.
The second take was much louder and some students speed up the words. That didn’t work. They were quite impressed with the tall jumps the sound waves made on this version. Take 3 had giggles in it because some students were still speeding up.
Finally, Take 4 was good enough. I really wanted to get this recording up on our wiki today! I do give a hand signal to all the students to begin and on this version I used my hand like a conductor would. That seemed to help.
Take a listen to Room 113 praying the Hail Mary.
http://room113-smm.wikispaces.com/
I really like how you used the first day to show them how teck works.
So cool! I wish I had a MB to use in my classroom. It is so great and easy to use with kids 🙂
Thanks Mary and Steph for the comments!