Online Voice Tools For Language And Literacy

Online Voice Tools for Language and Literacy Michael Coghlan September 11 th , 2008

Why Media?
Adrian Miles (RMIT):
“ make our institution …more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”
Innate human desire/need to create
Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of images, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc
develops Digital Literacy
http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/800589975/

“ The Read/Write Web” (Tim Berners Lee) Original photo by Hummanna .

No Longer a Lone Voice
Evolution of new tools, and
Increased bandwidth (estimated 70% of Australian households now have broadband)
> voice with images, video, animation is becoming the norm
BUT, voice alone still has value…
Image courtesy of http://flickr.com/photos/rick_leche/2213262465/

The Ideal:

Annotating Content

Asynch Synch Oral Written Dialogic Minimalistic Reflective; combination of dialogic and monologic Most structured form of communication COMMUNICATION AXIS

Asynchronous Voice (Boards)
new form of communication in the educational landscape
Allows individual assessment of oral output for every student
Can test pronunciation, fluency, communicative competence, conflict negotiation (using a scenario approach)

Asynchronous Voice - Tools
Wimba: the original (and expensive)
example
Free Alternatives
Voicethread ( example )
Chinswing ( example )
Vaestro
Source: www.voice.gatech.edu /

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Where do you put your audio?
Local server
LMS (eg Moodle, but usually limited file size)
Hosted podcasting services:
Podomatic
Odeo
Hipcast
Utterz (microblogging)
Wikis (eg Wikispaces)
Other – the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Micro (audio) Blogging
Can record directly on to your personal or public site
Can post via phone directly to site (several sites provide this service these days – including Blogger)

UStream: Broadcast Yourself

Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Initiative and Enterprise
Planning and Organising
Self-management
Learning
Technology

Digital Story Telling
Photostory
Moviemaker

Photo Story: which skills?
Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Initiative and Enterprise
Planning and Organising
Self-management
Learning
Technology
Which employability skills? – all of them!

Virtual Classrooms (Elluminate, Adobe Connect, Live Classroom) Free: Wiziq, Dim Dim

Second Life See Second Life in Education

The Essential List
Instant Messenger (Skype, Google Talk)
Asynchronous Voice Board
Podcasting (or other audio hosting) Site
Virtual Classroom

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