Use of Sound to Develop Skills

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Use of Sound to Develop Skills

• Developing multimedia skills
• Importing and saving sound and music files
• Recording
• Incorporation into presentations and animations
• Developing speaking and listening skills
• Ability to practice
• Promotes self assessment

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Benefits to Literacy

• Cross curricular use of ICT with speaking and
  listening
• Greater self-awareness how I speak!
• Develop greater sense of audience
• Polished, finished end product - a performance
• Collaborative working creative talking and
  listening
• Highlights impact of rhyme, mood etc as
  words/sounds heard externally to themselves

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Curriculum Applications

• Narration to go with a story, animation,
  PowerPoint or video
• Retelling a story
• Convey feelings or moods through careful choice
  of words, phrases, music
• Verbal instructions linked to sequencing
  activities
• Radio broadcasts
• Radio advert, News, Historical,
  Environmental,Entertainment

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Using Sound Recorder

• Supplied with Microsoft Windows
• Enables sounds to be saved onto computer to be
  used later
• Can record, play modify sound files
• Saved in .wav format

back and re-record, also
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Using Audacity

• Free download
• Also used at secondary level
• Can record several different tracks to be played
  back together, e.g. narration and background
  music
• Can import both .WAV and .MP3 files

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Classroom Issues

• External noise where to record to get quality?
• Inhibitions/embarrassment of pupils when they
  record and hear their own voices
• Class organisation for headphones - one group can
  work on presentations and one on sound track