Digital Production 120 Now Has 66 Sounds on FreeSound.org

Students in this year's Digital Production class contributed a number of sounds to FreeSound.org. 

Some of the sounds they created this year include squeaky doors, running water, smacking binders, walking in snow, closing lockers and moving desks. 

Almost all the new sounds already have been downloaded by other users on the site. Anyone can download and use the sounds for their own projects.

Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Users can browse, download and share sounds.

Students in the class usually use FreeSound.org for their own final projects in the Digital Audio Unit. 

Students in Digital Production 120 Contribute to Online Sound Database

"Wings flapping" has over 1400 downloads

Students in this year's Digital Production 120 class contributed many new sounds to the Digital Production class account on the FreeSound site. 

Completing an assignment for the Digital Audio Unit, students created many different sounds, including vehicle engine sounds and everyday sounds heard in school.

Available on the FreeSound site, anyone can download and use the sounds for their own projects. Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Users can browse, download and share sounds.

"Squishy Gore" has over 900 downloads

Some of the sounds created by students in the class have over 200 to 1400 downloads by other users. 

This year, 12 new sounds were uploaded by the students. You can check all the sounds by clicking here.

BBT 10 Students Participate in Hour of Code

 Grade 10 students in Broad-Based Technology participated in the Hour of Code on December 11. 

They also all decided to hold their certificates upside down. It might have been a protest for me making them pose for a photo. 

Click here for more information on the Hour of Code and you can also click here to see the online courses that are offered by Code.org.  

Exploring Sounds, Images and Narration Through ArtsSmarts Project

Artist Andrea Watling (centre) with some
of the Media Studies 120 students. 

Grade 11 and 12 Blackville School students in Media Studies 120 had an opportunity to explore the impact that sound and images have on narration through a provincially funded ArtsSmarts Project this spring.

Artist Andrea Watling travelled from Bathurst, and in five sessions she helped the students explore the effects that sounds have on narration.

The students also considered the impact of images, and Mrs. Watling encouraged the students to consider what would be the best way to visually create the stories they decided to share in their final products. Some students did photography, while others created different types of artwork.

In their self-assessments, students shared what they did differently or what they did that they never did before. Some of the students mentioned how they experimented with different subject material and considered various camera angles and points of view.

Other students noted that recording their own sounds to use for a school project was something they have never done before. The editing process along with video production were new learning experiences for some of the students.