Most students are quite familiar with audio and video equipment. Throughout this curriculum are suggestions for audio and video recording as a way to provide feedback to speakers and to let them know how their presentations look and sound. Recordings are also a means of preserving classroom oracy activities and presentations as models for other students or for assessment and reporting purposes.
At times, groups or individuals may wish to pre-tape a presentation to be used in the classroom, rather than simply recording live classroom presentations. For instance, a group of students might make up a news broadcast for events happening in a story or they might create a talk show using story characters as guests. Very often, such productions require that scripts be written, so this involves group collaboration in writing activities before any of the recording takes place.