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I know you were sad to cut some of your favorite parts, but I think it works better now. I wish that there was a way to have the sound be more consistent. We had problems with that too though so I don't know what the answer is there. Do your students know they're maybe going to be at the museum (or their voices at least?) Are you planning on taking them to see the exhibit? Nice job ladies!
Yes! I think it is smoother (we could not totatlly lose the giggling)and more conversational. I do agree that our original version, in addition to being too long, was a bit forced in its infromation...good information as it was, it dod not fit all the time with the rest of the info given by the kids. The noise we can fix next time, but there was no way to delete it...OK, maybe with a different program, WE scrificed a bit of audio quality for the genuine responses of the children. Next time, different mike and strap the kids down do they make no noises. :-)
Yep. I'm playing it for them next week and I'm going to talk to the headmistress about taking them on field trip to the museum. They're so excited. One boy has asked if it's available for download every week since we recorded! He wants it on his iPOD ASAP!
I agree with the other comments. I wonder if having children record their voices one at a time would be a good idea. it would probably lose the spontaneity that you have, but you would get better sound quality. It's all about trade-offs. Or, what if you had 2 or 3 mics sitting on a table (that no one was allowed to touch!) and a small group of students sitting at the table. you might be able to get both good sound and some spontaneous ideas that way.
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I know you were sad to cut some of your favorite parts, but I think it works better now. I wish that there was a way to have the sound be more consistent. We had problems with that too though so I don't know what the answer is there. Do your students know they're maybe going to be at the museum (or their voices at least?) Are you planning on taking them to see the exhibit? Nice job ladies!
Posted by: katie | April 2, 2007 9:10 PM
Yes! I think it is smoother (we could not totatlly lose the giggling)and more conversational. I do agree that our original version, in addition to being too long, was a bit forced in its infromation...good information as it was, it dod not fit all the time with the rest of the info given by the kids. The noise we can fix next time, but there was no way to delete it...OK, maybe with a different program, WE scrificed a bit of audio quality for the genuine responses of the children. Next time, different mike and strap the kids down do they make no noises. :-)
Posted by: Jan | April 3, 2007 2:58 AM
Yep. I'm playing it for them next week and I'm going to talk to the headmistress about taking them on field trip to the museum. They're so excited. One boy has asked if it's available for download every week since we recorded! He wants it on his iPOD ASAP!
Posted by: shannon | April 3, 2007 3:56 PM
I agree with the other comments. I wonder if having children record their voices one at a time would be a good idea. it would probably lose the spontaneity that you have, but you would get better sound quality. It's all about trade-offs. Or, what if you had 2 or 3 mics sitting on a table (that no one was allowed to touch!) and a small group of students sitting at the table. you might be able to get both good sound and some spontaneous ideas that way.
Posted by: Melanie | April 4, 2007 2:21 PM