MMVC2015 - Teaching writing using voice tools on mobile devices and iPads

TEACHING WRITING
using Voice Tools on
Mobile Devices and iPads
Vance Stevens at the MMVC15 Online
Virtual Conference August 9, 2015
This is an online version of a face-to-face workshop given at
ISTE 2015, Philadelphia: http://tinyurl.com/iste2015vance

What this presentation covers
• Helping writers find their voice on mobile devices
• Rational for using voice in writing
• Brainstorming with Google DocsStoryBuilder
• Voice composition and feedback in Google Docs
• Using Word Clouds in mobile apps
• Dragon Dictation
Vance Stevens at MMVC15 online Aug 9, 2015

● DocsStoryBuilder (a website, not an app)
● Today’s Meet:
o https://todaysmeet.com/mmvc15aug9
● Google Drive, Docs, and Chrome
o Docs app and desktop views
o Voice tools
● Word Clouds app
● Dragon Dictation app
● Dictanote on PC
Apps and sites covered

No need to take notes
All my slides are online either in Google Slides
or in the case of this one,
http://slideshare.net/VanceS
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/mmvc2015-teaching-
writing-using-voice-tools-on-mobile-devices-and-i-pads
AND all the links work there, so to follow this
presentation optimally, go there

How writers find their voice
on mobile devices

Lindsay Clandfield says writing is
returning to oral roots (from
recording onto scrolls → to txtg &
speaking into mobile devices):
https://app.box.com/s/0xsjv54sbh18uqx3j01a
Rational for return to
oral tradition in writing

Brainstorming using voice with
DocsStoryBuilder
From http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/
● On iPad or PC
you can build
your story using
the voice tool
● Add music and
FINISH UP with a
URL to your story

DocsStory Builder: Student examples
Brainstorming IELTS essays
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/UrwheJQun - Fast Food, jazzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/V0AYQdyjx - Abdullah & ghost writer
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/4lLSbXEAn - Driving fast, schmalzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/0zwCdc28j - Bicycles, driving beat
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/Y0d4XoBQV - Elderly, schmalzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/WcoeeZSRx - Public transport
Sound does not play on iPad
Plays well on PC

Playing with Google Docs Story Builder
Find it by Googling Docs Story Builder
Or use a link at right
● Remember, it’s a website, not an app
● Type or speak your dialog
● Select some music
● Get a shared link; students can
o Post that link to a shared space e.g.
https://todaysmeet.com/mmvc15aug9
o Or share it on Google+
http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/

Today’s Meet for f2f ISTE

StoryBuilder Tutorials
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QPWWMNQvxHLCkmkBq4y7tsbkbuVfA72IoaplaAtf6gQ/edit?usp=sharing

Google DOCS and DRIVE apps

iPad views of Google Docs and Drive

How I teach writing with Google Docs
● I organize it on PC for convenience
● Our students work on iPad
● iPad apps different from PC
o Have both limited and enhanced functionality
● Typing difficult on iPad, but …
o Can be overcome to some extent with
continuous speech recognition tools

How to Create a Google Doc on iPad
● This is how
my students
do it
● Launch the
app and click
the blue plus

Name your file: Your name and topic
● Important that
you can identify
student work &
● that they can
distinguish their
many docs

Go to the Share & export menu
vertical

Click on the Share icon

Share it with vancestev@gmail.com

Essential Google Docs Tips
Comment tool - ctrl-alt-m on PC (voice on iPad)
Strike out tool - alt-shift-5 on PC (awkward on iPad)

Essential Google Docs Tips
An organized Drive (with
folders & subfolders)
● A File naming system
with names and topics
● Use the search tool to
bring up files in Drive
● Helps catch plagiarism
● Use Shared with Me
and Recent to find files

Google Docs Feedback - PC view

● Fewer
tools but ..
● Voice a
major
affordance
Docs app view

● More traditional
tool set
● Including ..
Insert / Image
● No voice
● Limited touch
functionality
iPad also has a Desktop View

OLD: How to insert pics into Google Doc
http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.ae/2015/03/tutorial-on-posting-images-to-google.html

New -> insert image added to Docs app
2014
NOW (2015)

Word Clouds

Plan B: Dragon Dictation
Helps work around constraints on typing
Useful if voice isn’t working in Google Docs

Punctuation Voice Commands
http://lifehacker.com/5928902/how-to-talk-to-your-mac-using-dictation-effectively

Using Dragon Dictation to model process
This
composition
was created in
class while
eliciting input
from students

Voice on PC: Dictanote
https://dictanote.co/

For more information
Written text version:
http://tinyurl.com/iste2015vance-doc
and blog post
The HoA rehearsal of this presentation
http://learning2gether.net/2015/06/08/learning
2gether-with-vance-stevens-teaching-writing-
on-ipad-and-mobile-devices-using-voice-tools/
The ISTE wiki portal for this presentation
MMVC15 slide presentation - http://slideshare.net/vances
http://iste2015ipadagogyabloominbetterwaytoteach.pbworks.com/w/page/92494251/Writing%20-%20Vance%20Stevens

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