November was an eventful month for me when it comes to technology and ideas.
When I submitted my proposal, I was considering how I could make library lessons and ideas more accessible to teachers, since K-5 librarians are going the way of the dinosaurs. That may happen in the future, but my thoughts have changed.
At the beginning of the month, our LA teacher was sharing her excitement - using ipods to have the students who have difficulty with writing output, record their story ideas and then play them back repeatedly until they were able to write their ideas down. I didn't know that you could record on an ipod. I began to think that there may be other technolgical ideas that I may wish to explore.
A few days later, my ESL partner and my principal and I were talking about ESL and oral language at the Rojas workshop. I brought up about the large number of stories that we have that also have cassette tape version of them. Since cassette players are not readily available, and the tapes usually look like spaghetti after the students have used them a few times, we came up with this idea - transferring the cassette stories to the computer so that we can make them available in the classrom and at home, without needing to play a cassette. Having the stories, especially some of the dual language books, available to the students at home, should help with their home reading. They can sign out the book and then have it read to them without needing to rely on someone to read it to them. If the stories have an AR quiz, the students can check the box that indicates that they have had the story read to them.
For our last pro-d, I was shown how to record the stories onto the computer using Garageband.
NOW I need several things.
- since I don't know much about ipods etc., what else is out there that I might want to use? (i.e. What is a podcast?)
- how best to make the various stories available on the school web site
- what workshops would best serve my needs for this project
- how do I write this as a question?
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
outdated technology in the library
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3 comments:
Karen,
your new project idea seems to be one that you have a certain amount of passion for. This is good! I am very passionate about the use of digital audio in the classroom. It just so happens that I am putting on a workshop on Wednesday Dec 5 called Introduction to Digital Audio. You can sign up at start-learning.ca. We will cover many of the questions you may have around digital audio, (podcasts, how to best record audio and some of the classroom uses of digital audio)
Gary
That sounds like a great idea converting those resources! I find the easiest way to get a project out of Garageband is Share - Export to Disc and then choose mp3.
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