While making my own eBook with humane education themes I have been using many different tools and one of them is Audacity. Audacity is a free software that you can download and record audio files. It is really easy to use and edit with because of its cut and paste features. Really all you need is a computer, the free download, and a microphone (I got one for $8.00 and it works fine).
So I came up with a way to use Audacity in the classroom and involve animals in the lesson. This lesson would be for elementary students possible K-3. Each student would be assigned an animal. Any animal you see fit from the farm to the jungle or north pole. The child will do an art project of the animal coloring, painting, mosaic, etc. and that will be scanned into the computer and placed in a PowerPoint document as a slide. Then the child will be able to record what sound he/she thinks the animal makes using audacity. The the sound will be placed with the picture and the project will be viewed by the students. This is a fun activity that also has a great end product that other students, teachers, and parents will want to see.
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I think audacity has some really great features. My favorite is that it is so inexpensive. However, audacity has cause me quite a bit of difficulty in this class. Audacity files run into my I-tunes files, which makes my stories confusing. Do you have I-Tunes on your computer? If so, how do you work around this problem?
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