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'''Title of Activity'''
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'''<big>{{font color|brown|<u>Combining words and sounds to tell a story</u>}}</big>'''<br>
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{{font color|brown|In this activity you will learn to combine sound effects with an audio story telling}}
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| style="padding-left:2px;" | Go to <br /> [[ICT teacher handbook/Audio visual communication|ICT Teacher Handbook]]
 
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===Objectives===
 
===Objectives===
 
#Combining words and sounds to tell a story
 
#Combining words and sounds to tell a story
#Organizing recordings on folders
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#Organizing recordings into files on folders
 
#Ability to create an audio communication  
 
#Ability to create an audio communication  
  
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#Managing files and folders
 
#Managing files and folders
 
#Using multiple recording devices to record
 
#Using multiple recording devices to record
===Resources needed ===
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===What resources do you need  ===
 
#Computer lab with projection equipment
 
#Computer lab with projection equipment
 
#Speakers
 
#Speakers
 
#Recording devices and players
 
#Recording devices and players
#Handout for [[Learn  
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#Handout for [[Learn Audacity|Audacity]]
===Digital skills===
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===What digital skills will you learn===
 
#Using multiple recording devices to record
 
#Using multiple recording devices to record
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#Combining audio for effective story telling
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#Audio editing for combining audio to create effective stories, using [[Learn Audacity|Audacity]]
 
#Organizing recordings on folders
 
#Organizing recordings on folders
  
 
===Description of activity with detailed steps===
 
===Description of activity with detailed steps===
 
====Teacher led activity====
 
====Teacher led activity====
#Your teacher will play the following sounds for you and discuss with you how to tell a story
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Your teacher will read a story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse for you.  Listen to it.  She will then read the same story with some sounds added to it.  Listen carefully and discuss what is the difference you observe between the two story telling activities.  She does this with a tool called  [[Learn Audacity|Audacity]].
As she plays
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[[File:Sound of Forest (Mookambika wildlife sanctuary).ogg|left|thumb|Sound of forest]]<br>
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Are words more powerful? Are sounds more powerful?  How does combining words and sounds create more effective stories?
[[File:Rhythmband.ogg|left|thumb|Rhythmic band]]<br>
 
[[File:71000 passing St Andrew's Junction.ogg|left|thumb|Train passing]]<br>
 
[[File:The Pony Engine (1910).ogg|left|thumb|The Pony Engine Reading]]<br>
 
  
 
====Student activities====
 
====Student activities====
#You can go around a kitchen (yours and your friends) and record the sounds of preparing food. Tell yummy stories around the food that is cooking.
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#You have already recorded many audio clips in the [[ICT student textbook/Audio story telling|previous activity]]. Now add your narrations to the clips you have recorded. Combine the narration with the audio using [[Learn Audacity|Audacity]].
#You can talk to your elders and record what people used to eat
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#You have already created a narration of local history. Add sounds or music to the narration.
  
 
===Portfolio===
 
===Portfolio===
#Your audio clips of sounds and narration
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#Original audio clips and recordings
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#Edited audacity projects and edited audio files
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[[Category:Level 2]]
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[[Category:Audio visual communication]]

Revision as of 06:32, 25 March 2017

ICT student textbook
Audio story telling Combining sounds and words to tell a story Audio visual communication level 2 learning check list

Combining words and sounds to tell a story
In this activity you will learn to combine sound effects with an audio story telling

Objectives

  1. Combining words and sounds to tell a story
  2. Organizing recordings into files on folders
  3. Ability to create an audio communication

What prior skills are assumed

  1. Handling ICT equipment
  2. Managing files and folders
  3. Using multiple recording devices to record

What resources do you need

  1. Computer lab with projection equipment
  2. Speakers
  3. Recording devices and players
  4. Handout for Audacity

What digital skills will you learn

  1. Using multiple recording devices to record
  2. Combining audio for effective story telling
  3. Audio editing for combining audio to create effective stories, using Audacity
  4. Organizing recordings on folders

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

Your teacher will read a story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse for you. Listen to it. She will then read the same story with some sounds added to it. Listen carefully and discuss what is the difference you observe between the two story telling activities. She does this with a tool called Audacity.

Are words more powerful? Are sounds more powerful? How does combining words and sounds create more effective stories?

Student activities

  1. You have already recorded many audio clips in the previous activity. Now add your narrations to the clips you have recorded. Combine the narration with the audio using Audacity.
  2. You have already created a narration of local history. Add sounds or music to the narration.

Portfolio

  1. Original audio clips and recordings
  2. Edited audacity projects and edited audio files