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Reviving Student Writing: Creative Multimedia Projects Guide

Learn how to bring your students' writing to life through multimedia projects. Record, edit, and combine writing with music and visuals to create engaging content. This guide covers recording, selecting music, editing, and burning to CD. Enhance core assignments with this innovative approach.

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Reviving Student Writing: Creative Multimedia Projects Guide

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  1. Bringing Your Student’s Writing Alive MACUL 2011 Mellissa Connin

  2. Contact Information Mellissa Connin Jennings Elementary Media Teacher Website: http://jes.quincyschools.org/classpages/classpage.cfm?TID=conninm Email: conninm@quincyschools.org

  3. Things you will need • Audacity • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Windows Moviemaker • Internet Access • CD-R • Podcasting headphones/microphones

  4. Student’s Writing Memories Stories Poems Journal entries Core writing assignments

  5. Project at a Glance • Record writing (save project). • Select and import music (export as a wav). • Scan Pictures. • Import pictures into moviemaker. • Import final audacity file. • Edit. • Burn to CD.

  6. Step OneRecording • Practice • Have students read their writing to a partner a couple times. • Set a deadline. • Have students listen to each other’s as they finish.

  7. Step TwoMusic • Select background music. • www.freeplaymusic.com • www.royaltyfreemusic.com • Save music file • Import music file into Audacity project. • Open project. On the toolbar, go to project, import audio. Browse to drive and select music file.

  8. Editing • Play the music and reading together. • Want to be sure the music doesn’t overpower the voice. • Adjust the volume on the tracks. • Use the volume selections on the left of each track. • Export as a wav. • Go to File • Choose export as a wav

  9. Step ThreePut it all together! • Import pieces into moviemaker. • Open Windows Moviemaker • Under Capture Video, choose import picture. Go to file and select. • Under capture video, choose import audio. Browse to wav file and select. • Drag files from collection window down to timeline.

  10. Final StepEdit and Burn to CD • Play the project • May need to adjust music to length of reading. • Go to finish movie and burn to cd.

  11. Optional Touches • Add a Title/Dedication. • Add Credits. • Kid Designed CD covers.

  12. Additional Ideas Gifts Classroom Happenings Morning Announcements Current themes of study

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