Capturing Happy Birthday-a Sound Cloud Moment

Week 1 of 52  Thank you to Stacey and Ruth for hosting the Tuesday Slice of Life Challenge!

Capturing Happy Birthday  Click the link to the left to hear the sound cloud... During the March Slice of Life Challenge 2013, I witnessed Kevin (Dogtrax), Stacey, and Alan begin using Sound Cloud to record and capture moments of sound as part of daily slices.  I wanted so badly to join in this fun, but the time just wasn't there to play around and try it out...so, for the time being, I used the "voice memos" button on my iPhone to capture Natalie saying, "Happy Birthday" on Kevin's birthday.

Just today, I registered on Sound Cloud and set up my account.  I played back the voice memo and recorded it on Sound Cloud.  Some new learning for me-thank you for the inspiration Kevin, Stacey and Alan.

Back to the capture of Nattie's voice-she makes me laugh.  She was talking and saying Happy Birthday very clearly and when I took out the phone to record it-she suddenly became shy and would only whisper.  As she watched the timer tick on the phone, she must have thought it was a clock and then became obsessed with saying it was a clock.  Oh, if only I could get in her brain and know what she was really thinking!

I hope to capture more sound cloud moments as slices of my life! 

The Shrinking Globe

 

Two Writing Teachers

Thanks Ruth and Stacey for hosting this writing community each week!

 

 

 

 

Our world became a little more connected today as I skyped into Karen Lirenman's First Grade Classroom in Canada.  She allowed me to join in the learning as they had a video game programmer sharing with their class today!  The reason I asked her if I could join in was because I know that this is a career area that Kam is considering (yes, I know he's only 8-"Really?").  So Karen, such a dear person, allowed us to join in on the Face time call from her friend Beth.

 

Kam was listening intently as he heard what Beth got to do with her job.  She shared with Karen's class all about the process of how video games are developed by the writer, the artist and then the programmer.  She also answered questions from the children-at the end of her presentation.  Kam even got to ask a question-"how many years of college did she have to do?"  She told us lots-but noted that there are both 2 year and 4 year programs for this line of work!  Yay!

 

After we ended our skype call with Karen, still more connected learning in the Twitterverse as she  tweeted about us joining in...

 





Look who joined in on our FaceTime with a video game programmer? @aruddteacher100 twitter.com/KLirenman/stat…

—Karen Lirenman (@KLirenman) February 18, 2013

Yes, that's me and Kam trapped in the computer screen!

 

Our learning continued after reading another tweet about how Karen's students blogged about their learning on their kidblog posts.  I visited their blogs and left a few comments.  Wow!  Connected learning-shrinking the globe, a little at a time...all because of a simple question-could we join you?

#slice2013