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I know I’ve put 2 other Pawleys Island commercials up here, but the creators of this one have been stalking the site all the way from Germany.  Here it is girls…your masterpiece!!!

olivia-and-kristen

Plus… Olivia is one of the only students who started a blog and actually updates it regularly.  Nice Job Olivia!!

I’d like to post all of these at the same time, but doing it this way gives me something to write about over the summer. And what does it matter since there is only two of you listening anyway.

Hilton Head Island – summer-and-april

Here’s another radio commercial for Murrell’s Inlet.  Sometimes the music in the background sounds too perfect.

Murrells Inlet – sadie-and-kylie

Here’s another installment of our radio commercials.  Some of these are so good…it just brings a smile to my face.

annie-and-mary-hannah

This was my favorite commercial.  For such a quiet child, Maleek really shined on this project!!

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Our radio commercials were a success!!  Audacity worked really well.  The kids had a ton of fun playing with all the effects.  Some of them even changed their voice. 

Here are some samples of their work…

Glenn – Spartanburg

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Leslie and Leah – Pawley’s Island

leslie-and-leah 

Stay tuned for more commercials. 

Grades are due today and these extra credit podcasts are still coming in. Procrastinators never cease to amaze me….I know because I’m one of them. Anyway…here it is.

Declaration of Independence

As the quarter comes to an end, more students become interested in creating an extra credit podcast.  Unfortunately, I still have to hold their hand as they create, but I still think they are enjoying what they’re doing…oh by the way…I think they’re also learning something.

Here’s the latest…

Joseph Stalin

In a continual effort to bring podcasting to my 7th graders while still keeping pace with our curriculum, I’ve decided to create an extra credit assignment.  The assignment is simple…write a report about any topic that we have discussed in class.  Record that project on the audacity software.  Add music.  Post podcast.

My vision is that every student would create a different topic and our curriculum will be represented by 100 podcasts.  I’m sure that will happen this school year.

I unveiled the extra credit project about a week ago and just yesterday a student has recorded the first podcast.   This student did his podcast on Adolph Hitler.

hunter-hitler.mp3

This past week was crazy!! I had my students create a VoiceThread. During the week I had to contend with several different obstacles. The first issue came with the jumbled up schedule due to MAP testing. Everyday had different times to meet with the classes. Then I had to deal with a blocked website. That was ok because I had a password to get past the firewall, but I had to put in the password every single time the students went to the website or even refreshed the page. It got old quick. Then my headsets with microphones came just at the nick of time, unfortunately getting them all to work with the computers was another issue. I had to log on to the computers as me and not as student, just to go into the control panel and fix the microphone settings. After all was said and done, only about half of my students finished their projects when I wanted them to finish. There were too many technical difficulties to contend with. Next time I know I’ll be better prepared for this. Even though, towards the end of the week I had a short fuse, I was extremely happy with the out come of the projects. I’ll post the links to the VoiceThreads later on in the week, once everyone has finished.

In addition to creating the VoiceThreads, I had a handful of my students create our podcast for the week. I ended up mixing all of their comments, but they created the entire podcast.

Here it is…

Project Week

Here is the first official podcast. Although we had a shortened week, we still managed to put something up. I’d like to thank all the kids who worked so hard to help create the podcast.

Today in Social Studies I learned…

The Kneighborhood:

The Kneighborhood 11_16_2007

The first of many podcasts is up. I am definitely open to suggestions on what content to put on the podcasts. The podcasts are here to have fun and learn something while listening. I hope you enjoy.