Check out this presentation for information on the application Google Voice, how to start using it AND how other teachers in different disciplines are using this great app!

1. Google Voice
Melissa Duplechin
Monarch High School
Spanish teacher

2. Speaking- with groups or individually
Speaking- assessment throughout unit
and then as an assessment
Text- exit ticket
Text- homework check from flipped
videos
Text- quick check for understanding or
opinions
District assessment

3. Free!!!
Online- easy to download and listen
Students love using their phones
Don’t have to use my own number
Doesn’t have to ring anywhere-
students can text/call at any time
Your number will never change
Create audio without microphone/lab

4. Easy to add student names- only once
Easy to download and/or share
Transcription doesn’t work well in
another language… but may help in
English
You can have it ring to your number and
can silence
Can forward other numbers to this and
have school messages here

5. • Vocabulary: Learners can speak to demonstrate
knowledge of vocabulary words/embed these in a class
website, to serve as review/reference materials.
• Audio Study Guide: one learner the task of
calling in the content then rotate learners, so they each
get the chance to serve in the role.
• Speech: Learners can record speeches via the
phone. Bonus: Take advantage of the voicemail
transcription feature. Assess learners’ enunciation by
seeing how accurate Google Voice transcribes their
messages.

6. • Math Solutions: To demonstrate understanding
of a topic or the solution to a problem, the learners can
talk it out.
• Foreign Language: It could be used as oral
responses to teacher questions or to recite pre-written
material to assess their reading and pronunciation
abilities.
• Audio Field Trip Journal: Have kids leave
messages throughout the field trip that documents their
experiences

7. • Get in Character: Let the learners have fun by
leaving messages in character-studying historical figures
or fictional characters.
• Podcasting: Since the voicemails can be embedded
in websites or downloaded, this would be a super
simple way to record a podcast!
• Reflection Tool: Get rid of those spiral notebooks
that have been serving as journals- after a class
discussion or project presentation, have the learners
record a reflection via Google Voice. It’s paperless!

8. • Work the Custom Greetings: Create a
greeting personalized specifically for your students- they
can call in to receive homework tips, announcements,
upcoming test information, or other class reminders.
• Announcements or Audio
Newsletters: Instead of creating a printed class
newsletter, why not call your own Google Voice number
and leave a message consisting of a class announcement
or audio newsletter? Then, simply embed it on your
class website for parents and learners to access.

9. • Responses: Create a greeting with questions-
students have to leave responses.
• Descriptions: Show students pictures and have
them call in and describe them
• Quick responses: Students text in answers that
go right to phone and teacher gives immediate feedback
in class (they hear her phone go off)
• Interviews: interview experts and play back or
students interview people and download for projects or
websites

10. Add a “Call Me” widget to your site. You will see on the right hand side
of my site has a call me button. You can find this code by going to your
settings and clicking on “Call Me Widget”.

11. 1. “Google Voice player in mail” which allows you to playback messages right in gmail
without having go login to your google voice account or download the MP3 onto your
computer.
2. I also use the “Video chat enhancements”, in the description it doesn’t say anything
about Google Voice improvements but I have noticed improvements by enabling it.

13. When you go to www.google.com/voice you will see the following
prompt:
I choose to create a new number so
that students don’t have my number.

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