Tech Days with CLMS and RMMS, DLAA

During Tech Days students worked in the computer lab at LEARN to create podcasts. Dual Language Arts Academy students wrote letters to their class pen pal, Alexis, and then created podcasts of their letters. Students from Clark Lane and Regional Multicultural Magnet School chose their own topic, wrote and recorded their scripts, and then modified and enhanced their recordings using Audacity. Check out the final products. They are GREAT!

Dual Language Arts Academy (April 1)
Alex
Anthony
Casey
Christopher
Denise
Derreck
Edgar
Haydee
Katelin
Katherine
Keishaly
Roselys
Sierra
Starr
Taiana
Tobias
Tyanne
Zay

Clark Lane Middle School and Regional Multicultural Magnet School (April 2)
Brent and Griffin (Playing for the Black Socks)
Emily and Erika (Cable and Emma)
Jeff (What I Want to Be)
Kevin (Milk)
Sasha, Priscilla, Carin (Our Favorite Animals)
Uriye (The Movie Grease)
Courtney and Adrienne (A Horse Named Jeffrey)
Emily (Slavery)
Joey and Aaron (All Types of Pie)
Poorva and Kayla (Race to Witch Mountain)
Sean (A Practical Guide to Dragons)

May 14th trip to Camp Hazen

May 14th will be a trip to Camp Hazen where all students will gather for a culminating activity for more team building activities. Permission slips have been given to the teachers to be sent home. All students who will be attending the field trip must have a permission which means if you don't turn in your permission slip then you cannot go. Get your permission slips in to your Mouse Calls teacher as soon as possible. For more information about Camp Hazen, CLICK HERE. If you lost your permission slip you can download one HERE. For the field trip flyer, click HERE.

Tech Days

April Tech days are here and students from each participating school will visit LEARN to participate in technology training. Students will use iPods and adapters to create voice recordings. The recordings will be imported into Audacity where they will learn about adding special effects.

Audacity is a free application that you can download from www.audacity.sourceforge.net. The application edits audio files. A LAME decoder allows Audacity to export the audio file as an MP3 file. There are many sites to download the LAME decoder; this link is one location that works. You must put the LAME DLL file in a folder beneath the [Audacity] program folder; there is a [Plug-ins] folder within the [Audacity] folder which is the best place for this DLL LAME decoder.

February Visit to LEARN

LEARN and We Make Mouse Calls was fortunate to have a nurse educator from the Joslin Diabetes Center, affiliated with Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, visit to provide a well-received presentation about Diabetes. Students learned about the disease and how people, young and old, live and cope with the disease on a daily basis. The presentation was engaging and prompted numerous questions and comments that were an obvious indication that the presentation was informative and meaningful. Students also learned about good nutritional choices that people with and without diabetes should practice.

Student teams also worked with iPods and in the computer lab to record their script from January. In the computer lab the students learned about Audacity, an audio editing application that they will learn more about in April.