3rd CLASS: Audacity & Screencast in schools

Audacity is a free cross-platform software application, which can be used for recording and editing audio, easy to use, distributed under the GPL. It is the most widespread audio editor in GNU / Linux. 

And, about the program screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also know as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot; whereas screenshot is a picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on a computer screen, enhanced with audio narration. 

OUR WORK
The coloured hen by Nazaret and Andrea

Once upon a time there was a hen. But not a normal hen. It has a lot of coloured feathers. It was the most beautiful hen in all the farm. 

The others animals admired it. All of them wanted to play with the coloured hen, but it was refused the proposal.

One day, the dog Tim said:

          - Can you give me one of your feathers?

          - No, no way, it is only mine

Since this moment, all animals, did not want to play with it. For these reason, the coloured hen was sad, very sad. It was the solitary animal in the farm.

It decided to talk with the clever bird:

          - Hello, I am very sad because the others don’t want to play with me.

          - Maybe, you can share your beautiful feathers with others.

So the following day the hen went with the rest of the animals and it gave them its feathers. It only stayed with  one beautiful feather but it was the most happy animal in this farm!

THE END

To finish the reflexion of this day in class, I would like to share this video created by students at Robin Hood primary School in Birmingham. 

In this video we can apreciate that teachers need to engage students and learn the tecnology. Every teacher should learn how to use basic digital audio recording software. I will share why I believe this is a skill that all teachers should learn. Audacity is one of the recording software very easy to use. The reason I´m advoating that all teachers should learn Audacity and not another digital recording is because it can be use with Mac and PC computers. Also, because it´s free and more universal than other programs.