It didn't work out the way we expected. It is always like that. You'd better have a back up plan before setting all your eggs in one basket.
School computers have limitations you never know of. A task you would be thinking it could take not more than three hours, it will take a week and you are still on recording and re-recording. First, the software doesn't get installed because you don't have the administration privileges to do so. Then there are music download and contrary to what you are thinking, it won't download for the same reason.
Students are pretty excited though. They have read their news articles, summarized, written their questions and answers and have rehearsed their lines for news reporting on radio.
Finally it comes time for recording and it is not as easy as the one you did in your own class. Sometimes kids are better at tech tools than adult students. They just grab the How Tos in a blink of an eye.But with adult learners, there comes all the steps to be taught. It can be simply from showing them how to use a mouse and right click to all the way through managing how to work with Audacity!
In a word, things can be difficult when it comes to integrating teaching with technology :)
I think that you are right and you are expressing the importance of working with software and things before teaching which is all a part of planning. That way when you practice with the tools you can see before hand the kinks that the students may encounter.
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