It’s an old technique - but fun nevertheless. Take a photograph, for example this picture of a high rise block in West London.
Now copy the picture into PowerPoint. Plug a microphone into your PC and get students to add their voice annotations using the Insert / Movies and Sounds / Record Sound path. The results can be interesting.
Download a Powerpoint file
View the slideshow and click the audio icons to hear the student’s impressions of life in the Trellick Tower.
This file was made by a group of Year 7 students studying the topic of settlement. The students themselves are from a small rural town in Somerset, UK.
I will use this with an SEN group. A number of pupils in my year 7 class have a reading age of about 5 years. This could open up more detailed explanations of geographical phenomena - e.g. descriptions of an image showing the effects of an eatrthquake. I was going to use a tape recorder, but this creates that visual and spatial aspect very easily. Thanks!
This is a fantastic idea…. in a history lesson a while ago the class were shown a picture (I think it was of a American West war). The class then could add their own audio clips to different parts of the picture with the method.
Its great for all years - it challenges people’s thoughts (on seeing the picture for the first time), and really looks in depth the issues involved in the image, and therefore the situation…