Chapter 18 in the textbook is about using narrated slide shows. My students and I have often used Keynote presentations in the classroom, but I have never used a recorded voice narration with the Keynotes. I decided to experiment with one of my previously made slide shows. Every two years, I take students from my school on a six day trip to the East Coast. I present the slide show to all of the 7th and 8th grade students when they return to school in September to get them interested in the trip. So I added voice narration to each of the slides. One of the benefits to doing this is that I won’t have to add live narration each time I show the slide show.
Adding voice narration to a Keynote slideshow is fairly easy. Because I didn’t write out a script for each slide, I sometimes had to redo the audio input because my words didn’t come out the way I wanted to when I just ad-libbed the narration. It didn’t take long to re-do the audio for one slide. But after adding narration for all 39 slides, I wanted to go back and re-do the narration for the first slide. I discovered that by re-doing the audio for first slide, I had lost all of the narration for the other slides. So, I’ll have to go back and do it again. I would definitely require my students to write out a script of what they planned to say for each slide. I would also make sure that they regularly saved their slideshows so that they don’t end up losing their recored narration the way that I did.
Ooohh, that's a bummer about losing your narration! The sometimes-painful things we learn by trial and error, but I hope all of your students will listen and learn--and not repeat!
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