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Information, Media & Telecommunications - RADIO PRESENTER & PRODUCER
From Wireless to Web: Times have changed! Primary Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy
1. Using the following websites create a timeline of the introduction of wireless in Australia to the use of digital communications.
2. Select one period of time - one decade - and, create a presentation using Prezi in both pictures and sound about your selected decade. 3. Using Audacity [free, open source program] create a story around your decade. Select a news item or Radio play to present as an audio file in Blogger or WordPress.
Let's Create a Podcast about your favourite pastime Primary Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
1. You are going to create a Podcast about one of your interests! Read the following article and with a partner list all the steps you need to take. Your Podcast is to only be 10 minutes in length. 2. You will need to script your podcast for it to sound professional and interesting to listeners. You can add sounds but you need to be careful of copyright so use Freesound.org for your music or mystery sounds. 3. Use Audacity to create your audio file. Get your partner to listen and suggest edits. 4. To make your audio file into a podcast, you need to upload it to a website - either WordPress or Blogger will let you do this. As a pair, listen to two other podcasts. How did they stack up?
Radio Reception & Transmission (from Try Engineering.org) Primary Middle Secondary Cooperative Learning Activity Lesson explores the electronics behind radio, and its impact on society. Students work in teams to build and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter from either a snap or soldering kit (depending on level and age). They review challenges encountered in the building and testing process, evaluate their results, and share observations with their class. Students investigate:
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Plan [PDF]
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