Common Core Writing Lesson With AudioBoo: 9/11 Narrated Art

By Wesley Fryer On September 26, 2012 · · 3 Comments

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(Cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase website)

Kayleen Browning teaches 6th grade Social Studies at Yukon Middle School. This year, she asked her students to identify a word which summarized things they had studied and learned about the 9/11 attacks in 2001 by al-Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mrs. Browning recently heard about the free iPad app and website AudioBoo, and the idea of helping students create “narrated art” using the program. She taught her students how to photograph a drawing they had made or upload a photo they found online, and then read a short essay they wrote about their 9/11 reflection using AudioBoo. This is a two minute video interview with Mrs. Browning recorded today in her classroom, in which she describes the assignment and its connection to the Common Core State Standards which Oklahoma is transitioning to now. This is a great example of how YPS teachers are integrating writing assignments across the curriculum, helping students practice practice their oral communication skills, and helping students safely publish their work in digital forms online.

Here are links to seven of the 95 AudioBoo “narrated art” 9/11 reflections Mrs. Browning’s sixth graders recorded in September this year. Access all of them on audioboo.fm/Brownink.

listen to ‘Surreal’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gallantry by Emily ’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Sadness by Brady’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Fearless by Paige ’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Strength my kathleen’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Shocking by Sakura R.’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Sadness by Aaron Sailer’ on Audioboo

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John

Teach the kids one more thing with this type of assignment: image citation. They can’t just get the images from an online source and bring into their projects without citation. Just like that can’t bring the text from a web page, book, newspaper, etc. into their work without citation. Otherwise, this is a great example of something very easy to integrate; audio, text, and images.
http://www.steinarknutsen.com Steinar Knutsen

Wes,

I love Kayleen’s use Audioboo. Very creative. You and other edu folks should also check out the Mobile Podcaster iOS app which has unlimited audio recording length. It creates a blog post and embeds the audio right in WordPress.