Grace+Wigington,+Podcast,+Round+3

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 * **Title**: ||< Audacity Podcast ||
 * **Subject**: ||< All- up to each group of students ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 2nd grade ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< Intitial- 30 minutes to 1 hour. Ongoing as group activity during workstations or technology recess in the library. ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Students will explore and use the program Audacity to create a podcast telling about something they have learned in class. (they will have the opportunity to choose the subject area and concept). ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here
 * 1) The students will click on the desktop Audacity icon on the computer. I will give them information on what a podcast is.
 * 2) The students will take some time to explore Audacity (working in small groups of 3-4)- I am going to let them try to figure it out on their own for a while. (this will be an ongoing project).
 * 3) After having time to explore the program, the students will disuss what subject area/topic they want to use in their podcast- they will have the liberty to choose what they want to do. The students will create a plan for their podcast. I will give them some ideas- a song, straight talking, a conversation, etc.
 * 4) The students will press the red record button and begin their podcast. ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? ||
 * Assessment: ||< After completing their podcasts, all the groups will share their podcasts with the class and we will have a class discussion about the podcasts that were created. I will prompt students with some questions in hopes of starting a discussion of what they thought about each other's projects. I would also like for the students to come up with some guidelines/ideas for their next podcasts. What do they want to do differently? What would they change? ||
 * Resources: ||< apple laptops, Audacity program, teacher computer ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round.... ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

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