This soundscape is another way to "Illuminate" a passage. I developed this podcast by analyzing and interpreting a piece of prose, like "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and incorporating technology in order to convey my understanding of the passage. Throughout the whole reading, I accompanied an "unsettling feeling" song in the background, to depict the mood that the words evoked for me. The sounds, attached to some of the words, reinstate the literal and subtext meaning of the extract. While making a soundscape such as this, students will be close reading, analyzing, and bringing the novel alive with their own voice and interpretation.
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Also, the ISTE, International Society for Technology in Education, held a contest which required an individual, whether student or teacher, to submit a minute long short story. This project had to follow specific guidelines indicated below.
Rules:
• You must use all of the sounds (crickets chirping, phone ring, heart
beating, striking a match, engine vroom, and water splash).
• You may use a sound more than once.
• You cannot use any other sound effects.
• You can manipulate the six sounds—i.e. trim them, add effects such as changing the pitch or speed.
• Your story must be a minute or less.
• It can be true life, drama, comedy, detective, romance, adventure, action, fantasy, horror, scifi...any genre you want.
• No profanity or use of personal information
• It can have characters and a narrator, just characters, or just a narrator.
• File must be sumbitted as a mp3.
(extracted from the website: iste.org)
This is what I created and submitted :
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One Summer Night.mp3 Size : 0.916 Kb Type : mp3 |
