Sunday, February 14, 2010

Project

This week I introduced an assignment that requires students to use Audacity. They are writing "This I Believe" essays, recording them in Audacity, and saving them to the public folder. I plan on playing these recorded essays in class next week. Each student will be assigned one essay to respond to in the form of a letter to the student/writer. Within this response, students will identify nonfiction elements such as main idea, purpose, audience, author's viewpoint, etc. I will use each student's letter to determine if he/she has mastered the learning targets for nonfiction writing. I did something similar to this last year, but I did not use Audacity. Students were required to listen carefully to the essay as it was read aloud in class, but they did not have the recorded essay to use as they identified the various nonfiction elements. I love that the students will now have access to these essays in the public folder. This may be my final project for this class; I'll see how it goes next week.

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