AudioBoo assignment for 9A, March 9th 2012

Hello everybody, and welcome to another beautiful day with your favorite activity, English as a second language!!!

Unfortunately, I won't be able to join you today because I am going on an excursion with the Media class. So, for that reason, I have prepared a little something for you to do today.

In last class, I asked you to look at a picture and to find out as much as you possibly could, based on only that one picture, remember?

I asked you to work in groups, and to let me know who were in those groups. Now, a few of you have informed me about who works with whom, but there are way too many of you who haven't told me anything at all.

So, for that reason your first assignment today will be to do just that: inform me about who works with whom. The URL for doing so is right here: http://bit.ly/x62Jq5

I'll just make a small break now, giving you time to hit the pause button, and you can fill in the formula.

Now that you've done that, you're ready to move on!

In your groups, start writing down the info that you gathered last time. I suggest you organize it in this way:

First, sum up the information you have gathered. Talk about it in the group, and start telling one another what you've found. One of you will sit with a paper or a word processer on your computer, writing down what the others say, so that you get as much of what you want to say down in writing immediately.

What you are writing is a manuscript - just like the one you are reading or listening to right now! The point is, that you are in the process of preparing your next audio boo, which you will be delivering by the end of the class.

When you finish writing everything down, you read through your manuscript. You read out loud, and you take turns, and you make little markers indicating who reads what, so that you will allow everybody in the group to take their turn of delivering the text.

Rehearse the text before you make your recording. Perhaps you will find sentences that don't really work, and you will have to rewrite those so that it becomes more natural to drive your points home. Also, reading out loud might expose "Danglish" to you, which you can't see by only starring at the paper or the screen.

When you're happy, you make your recording, using either Audacity or directly into the AudioBoo interface on the website (which is http://audioboo.fm, in case you've forgotten).

When your recording is uploaded, you copy the text that you've written and you insert it into the description field, just like I have done in this very boo that you're listening to right now!

The whole thing is possible to finish within 90 minutes, so I expect you to do just that: finish it within the two lessons, which means you've finished by 9:30 AM!

Those of you who are not present today because you're with me on the excursion will have to do this as a leisure activity sometime during this weekend.

Ok now, hop along and get going! And have a nice weekend, when you finish later today! I know I will, as I will be spending at least some of it listening to new observations from all of you in your boos! I can hardly wait! ;-)