Thursday, October 15, 2009

Why I’m Happy To Be In Grade 4! Podcast

Grade 4 students have been working on the process of recording their first podcast the past couple weeks and we are finally done! Students were asked to think about why they were excited to be in grade 4. Their responses were creative and varied. Some thought about favourite subject areas, favourite school activities or what they were looking forward to throughout the year.

The recording application used for this podcast was Audacity. This 'easy-to-use' application is great for recording and editing audio files. Using a microphone and a laptop, small groups of students took turns recording their voice, listening to the quality of the recording and rerecording their audio file if necessary. After the recording process was completed, the audio file was uploaded into PodBeam. This free web tool converts the Audacity file into a podcast sharing format available for upload to the school blog.

13 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed listening to your podcast. You all sound like you are looking forward to all the learning you will be doing in grade 4. Keep up the good work!

    Ms. Kreul

    http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=150372

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  2. Excellent job! Sounds like you're going to have a great year.

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  3. Sounds like grade 4 at your school is an exciting place to be! Great job on your first podcast!!

    Mrs. Poelzer
    Parkcrest Elementary
    Kamloops, BC

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  4. Grade 4 sure sounds like THE place to be! Enjoy your year.

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  5. Great job on your on your podcast grade 4's. Sounds like it should be an interesting and productive year for all of you.So glad to hear you are enjoying it, best of luck for the rest of the year.Keep up the super work.

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  6. I am really happy to hear about all the wonderful things that you are going to learn this year in Grade 4. I heard many students talk about learning French, Music, Art and designing simple machines in Science. This type of thinking exercises a different part of your brain. It is really good that both sides of our brain get a good work out. I know everyone in Grade 4 is going to have an awesome year. I look forward to other stuff that you will post on your blog. Keep up the great work.

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  7. What wonderful comments! Thank you to the visitors who have given us feedback on the grade 4 podcasting project.

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  8. Good job students!

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  9. Great job on the podcast!

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  10. Wow! So many cool projects in are happening in Grade 4. I loved hearing the expression in so many voices and the great variety of things that students are anticipating. Great work!

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  11. I really enjoyed listening to all the positive things that the grade 4's are looking forward to. I want to see Ms. Langford's drawings too now; she must be a great artist!!

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  12. Wow you guys YOU rock the world of podcasting! I loved your podcast!

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  13. That was so cool I have never heard of a podcast.
    Great job.

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