The document discusses online voice tools that can be used for language and literacy education. It outlines several free and low-cost asynchronous voice tools like Voicethread and Chinswing that allow students to record and share audio. The document also discusses using audio/podcasting, microblogging, wikis and other sites to host audio content. Synchronous voice tools like virtual classrooms in Elluminate, Adobe Connect and Second Life are also summarized. Overall, the document promotes using new voice and audio technologies to enhance communication, collaboration and digital literacy skills.

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

2. 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/

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

4. 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/

5. The Ideal:

6. Annotating Content

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

8. 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)

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

10. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

11. 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

12. 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)

13. UStream: Broadcast Yourself

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

15. Digital Story Telling Photostory Moviemaker

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

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

18. Second Life See Second Life in Education

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

20. ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? e: [email_address] w: http://protopage.com/michaelc