


Having already spent 10 of our precious weekly 45 minutes giving instructions, it suddenly seemed ridiculous to spend even more class time watching the video together as I had planned. Today I wanted to show students a nine minute clip from a longer YouTube tutorial that explains how to play with settings to improve sound quality.

Now they are cleaning them up using Ocenaudio (at least the ones that are following my lead some are using Audacity or Adobe). The kids have recorded incredible interviews with parents and siblings, mentors and teachers. In this project, we are all teachers and learners. I’m not the worst audio producer in the room with my students, but I’m also not the best. As a teacher, it’s been a practice of letting go. My seventh grade library students and I are making podcasts together.
