It was lab time once again and I was all ready to get the students to add the narration to their P/Stories. I gathered all of the headphone mikes I could find in the school, (5 in total) and fortunately I had some time to go into the lab before the class. Attempting to connect them to the desktop computers however I came up with yet another of those annoying problems that can be overcome but not without time being applied. To record with the mikes would need a slight change to the configuration of the sound input but as students don’t have privileges to make these changes without changing the privileges this left me without sound recording access.
Thinking quickly I got my wireless laptop and called up individual student’s work. Fortunately my students are trustworthy and appreciative of other’s equipment so I felt confident that they would use the laptop properly. Another problem I had not taken into account also was the possibility that having five or six narrations simultaneously happening in the lab may have proven very distracting. Fortunately again, across the passage from the lab is the library with a nice vacant library office. After a quiet word to our very co-operative librarian I soon had two children in the office recording away. Again using the “teach two students and leave one behind to tutor the next learner” model we soon had a production line happening. The other students were gainfully employed manipulating transitions and tutoring other students who were a little further back in the process.
