I have just begun to be able to develop some new ideas for ICT clubs and am currently working to create a 'school radio show' with my current group.
Previously in ICT club we have used a range of one off sites to explore free activities that are on the internet, this has gone really well and the girls have their eyes opened to the online world and the possibilities.
However, with many students returning term on term to the club, I need to take a fresh approach to how we run the club in order to keep things new and exciting. This term I have decided that we will work on an extended project which does not impact on learning in lessons for the girls but widens their skills.
We will be using Audacity to edit together a podcast radio show. The Audacity skills are something we are currently exploring with Year 6 as part of their music lessons but as yet have not had much success with. I am hoping that by giving some students the skills to use Audacity, we might drive a better use of the software in their other lessons.
The plan is this; learn the tools and functions of Audacity, recording sounds using the microphones on the ICT suite headphones. The sound quality is not brilliant but it is good enough for the purpose for now.
We will then try and migrate the project onto the tablet computers, recording sound bites around the school and saving them to a shared area. These could be on any topic that the girls fancy.
We will then return to the ICT suite and edit our clips, hopefully recorded to a reasonable quality, into a podcast which we can share with the school.
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