I’m still trying to figure out how to get the RSS feed working, and how to upload podcasts so that they appear as downloadable links or, better yet, a subscribable feed. Either I’m too dense to work it out, or it is so simple I’m overlooking it. Either way, I hope to get it figured out soon. For now, if you want to listen to the podcast, you’ll have to do it via the embeded flash player.
Ok. So I am a bit excited. Today we recorded our very first podcast. It is a recording of our morning talk for today and was done with the built-in mic of my laptop, so the audio is not the best. Also, the kids were really excited about doing the fact that it was being recorded and so there is a lot of shouting and general chatter in the background. Because we didn’t have a proper mic, and some of the kids spoke pretty quietly, it can be hard to hear at times. There more we do of these the better we’ll get at it, though. However, for a very first go I reckon it isn’t too bad. You can grab it from our podcasts page.
Well, we started this last week. I wrote out the music in dots on large sheets of paper, gave each student a percussion instrument and put them into groups – a bass drum group, a snare group and a hi-hat group. Then I ran through the rhythm for each group and had them practice it. Then we did it all together. I won’t say it was a complete disaster, but the word cacophony comes to mind. Anyhow, we will persevere.
A list of things I want to try with my class of five- and six-year-olds.
Well, I can put a line through the first one as we are in the middle of doing this right now – with some fantastic results, too. I’d like to put a gallery up here of some of them. Next is to put the photos through something like KidPix, (I do think Photoshop would be too much for these kids right now), and see what they can come up with.
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