Recording oral narration on IPod to be typed a success!

[my3sons]

Through the years, I have typed my ds's oral narrations whenever the HOD guide's plans have said to do so, and it has been such a great way to see and celebrate progress I may have otherwise missed. Though I am a pretty quick typist, however, I have struggled keeping up with his oral narration, and out of respect, Wyatt has s-l-o-w-e-d down his oral narration (and really simplified it too) to help me keep up.

When I read how Carrie has Shaw say and save his oral narrations to be typed on his Ipod as a voice memo, I decided to give it a whirl. WOW! What a difference in Wyatt's oral narrations! They are full of personality, and much lengthier. I could also keep replaying it to type it well. Here are a few of them lately - they are not perfect, but I think he did a good job on them!



Just thought I'd share that we are enjoying this idea!
In Christ,
Julie

[Kathleen]

We've had the same issue here with the narration I type not being as interesting as the one they share when we're sitting on the couch enjoying it. I've been wanting an ipod...now it might be a necessity. So...as I'm shopping, will they all do the recording or are there certain ones that will/won't?

Kathleen

[Homeschooling6]

I need to get an IPod

Julie that is so neat. Thank you for sharing. I really like this idea.

[pjdobro]

I love how he said at the start of the first one how it is a pleasure to be recording his narration! That's a great way to use an iPod. My dc use theirs a lot here. I can see the voice memo being one that we'll use in the future.

Those are some really nice narrations. I look forward to my dc growing to the point of having narrations as dynamic as those.

Kathleen, I think all of the iPod touches will have that voice memo feature. My dc have 4th generation 32 gb ones that they have had for over 1 1/2 years and they still work well for them. If you aren't looking to store a lot of photos, music, apps, or videos, you could go with less storage like the 16 gb one. You might want to look on craigslist to find a used one. Since the 5th generation just recently came out, you might find someone who wants to sell their 4th generation to upgrade to the 5th generation.

[Heather4Him]

Julie, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing! I just read this to our 15yog, who is improving in her narrations, but could definitely learn to be more "verbose". (She is a "just the facts/say it as concisely as possible" kind of girl.)