After almost two and half months of summer, I'm not exactly thrilled to go back to work full time. It's the students that make my long hours bearable, like this student I've described below.
The student that this post is about has been working on using appropriate voice volume. I have this app on my iPad (Voice-o-Meter) that dings if your voice is too loud or dings if you're too soft (parameters have to be manually set). This student's voice is very strong. He always sounds so passionate, but his volume could be bothersome in a classroom setting, especially when he begins to get agitated.
One day, during a speech session, I had the app turned on to monitor everyone's voice volume in the group, when every time this student spoke, it would ding indicating his volume was too loud. He would continue, it would ding. He would keep going, it would ding again. Finally, after it had dinged a handful of times, he says at the top of his voice, "Ugh! Curse my lungs!!"
Needless to say, the iPad dinged.
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