Audacity is a program thought to edit audios. It gives you plenty opportunities to improve your audios, music, etc. You can either record yourself, and then maybe, eliminate the parts that you do no like, or you can also edit audios from different platforms like Youtube. An advantage is that is compatible with several services, like Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.
I reckon this tool is not very useful in childhood education because they are very little to know how to use it as they do not know how to read or write. But, it is true that depending for the task that the teacher is planning, maybe this device could be serviceable.
Today in class the teacher has presented to us the Interactive White Board (IWB). I believe is a very functional tool as we are going to use them every day in our future profession, as teachers. Nowadays, almost every class of childhood education has an interactive whiteboard for children to use it. As children are beginning to read and write, this board is very visual as well as tactile so, for them is easy to use as they can touch the screen and whatever they have written drown appears.
With this tool, I came up with a simple but fun idea: matching colors. This activity is thought to be done with children of three years old, as it is very simple. On the screen they will see on the top of page four main colors: red, yellow, green, and blue; and at the bottom of the page, they will find a bunch of photos with different colors. What they have to do is get the interactive pen and slide the image at the bottom to the correct color. This activity could also be modified to make it more difficult by adding more photos or before selecting the photo, the children must say out loud the name of the object in English.
Today in class we have seen another tool, called Kahoot. In my opinion, this web tool is very useful not only for primary education students, but also for childhood education students. We, as future teachers, can use it as an introduction tool, saying this, I want to say that you can use it as a tool for introducing some topics, concepts or ideas. Also, you can use it as a revision tool, to revise after a session if your students have understood what the lesson was about. And also, you can use it as a final task or activity, to close the session.
This kind of web pages are very engaging for students, because even though they are being assessed, they do not feel like it, so they have a great time and also have fun. I wanted to create a Kahoot about animals, unfortunately this tool only allowed me to create two kind of questions: multiple-choice answer and true-false; the other options were accessible if you pay for them.
