This is the “Six Sounds in Search of an Author Contest” sponsored by
the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology.

Overview

For this contest participants will create a one-minute audio story that includes 6 sound effects:

You can download all six sounds as a zipped file or as one single mp3 file .

Six Sounds Contest The Sequel 

If you or your students participated in the contest last year, or if you just want to try a different set of sound, feel free to pick one of these sound packs, nature or city.   

Download here:

Nature sounds.zip

City sounds.zip

The goal of this project is to teach students and educators how to create and mix existing content media in original ways.  It's a challenge and opportunity to get creative within specific boundaries and rules.

Tutorial

If you can operate a word processing program and a tape recorder, you have 95% of the skills you will need to do audio editing. There's a tutorial on this website designed specifically for this project. It should take about 20 minutes to complete.

Along with the technical skills, this project is an accessible and creative way to teach literacy and important 21st century skills.
 

Rules

• You must use all of the sounds.
• You may use a sound more than once.
• You cannot use any other sound effects.
• You can manipulate the six sounds—i.e. trim them, add effects such as changing the pitch or speed.
• Your story must be a minute or less.
• It can be true life, drama, comedy, detective, romance, adventure, action, fantasy, horror, scifi...any genre you want.
• Files may not contain profanity.
• The story can have characters and a narrator, just characters, or just a narrator.
• File must be submitted as an mp3.
• Teachers and students can create multiple entries or collaborate on entries.
• Do not include any personal information in the recording.
• Files must be submitted by an adult (teacher, administrator or parent) who is an NJAET member (Membership is free, but you must log in to the Members Only section of the website to submit your entry.).
• All Entries are due by April 1, 2012

Please direct any questions to 6soundscontest@njaet.org


Examples

Listen to last year's winners for ideas and inspiration.

Awards
There will be nine award categories:

Every winning entry will receive a Coby - 3.0MP Mini Digital Video Camcorder

Evaluation Rubric

This project addresses NJCCCS 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (Language Arts Literacy) 8.1; (Technology); and 9.1 (21st Century Life and Careers). 

Project developed by Christopher Shamburg and John Shamburg

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