Whilst at the MFL Show and Tell, Joe Dale told us about Songsmith (I'd read his blogpost about it before but I'm an Auditory / Kinaesthetic learner...) and was filled with possibilities and ideas. I couldn't wait to find the opportunity to use it. Fortunately that opportunity showed itself soon than I'd imagined.
My Year 8 German class had been making "Haben" raps the week before and hadn't got very far with them at all so I felt that the injection of Songsmith would be really beneficial.
As Songsmith is on my laptop and downloading anything onto a school computer is difficult as I don't have administrator rights (and rightly so!) I decided we'd have a carousel-type activity. I split the class into groups of 3 and set up my laptop with a microphone in my office, gave a quick tutorial and we were away!
After they were recorded I popped them onto the Levelator and made podcasts out of them. They can all be found on my Langwitch school blog but I really liked this one best from "RP, BW, BS":