I used these slides to give a presentation about 'Recording Stories' with Vance Stevens on Learning2gether. The session was recorded and archived here http://learning2gether.net/2015/07/13/learning2gether-with-chris-fry-about-story-recording-live-from-barcelona/ My two classes of adult students recorded themselves in class over 2,500 times between them! What did we do with so many recordings?

1. Students recording themselves
• Pre-intermediate
• This year:
• 1635 recordings!
• 3.2 per student per day
• Last year:
• 828 recordings
• 1.6 per student per day
• Intermediate
• This year
• 1121 recordings!
• 2.9 per student per day
• Last year:
• 620 recordings
• 1.5 per student per day

2. • What do they record?
• How do they record themselves?
• What can students do with their recordings?
• What can the teacher do with these recordings?
Students recording themselves

3. What do they record?
• Retelling stories
• Being interviewed
• Practising pronunciation
• Doing grammar and vocabulary exercises
• Reading aloud

4. Retelling stories
What the students listened to Carla’s re-telling
The ipadio page
http://ipad.io/gCfk

5. Retelling stories
What the students listened to Carla’s re-telling
My feedback:
Hannah stopped just in time
she got out of the car
she looked at the man
Jamie got in the car
they ordered a cup of coffee
across /r/
car
sorry /r/
nearly
bar
8 minutes including recording
these examples read twice

6. Retelling stories

7. Being interviewed
• Not as frequently used as re-telling
• The ipadio page http://ipad.io/bDoc
Lidia G being interviewed

8. Practising pronunciation
The ipadio page http://ipad.io/pCRV Elisabet:

9. Doing grammar and vocabulary exercises
The ipadio page http://ipad.io/qCL7 Jose doing the exercise

10. Reading aloud
The ipadio page http://ipad.io/bDmR Dolors

11. • Mobile phones, or tablets (BYOD)
• Wi-Fi
• ipadio apps for Android and iPhones
How do students record themselves?

12. How do students record themselves?

13. • No SIM required, so old phones can be
recycled
• No data charges if only WIFI
• Even simple phones CAN be used, but …
How do students record themselves?

14. My review of ipadio on Google Play
1. Generous length for each recording
2. Easy to post (all or) selected recordings to an eportfolio on
WordPress or Blogger
3. Easy to embed manually in Edmodo, for example
4. Teachers can follow students, although this needs improving
5. Teachers (and students) can add comments, although it would be
nice if ‘new lines could be used’
How do students record themselves?

15. What can students do with their recordings?
• Listen to their own recordings
– Not all students do this, which makes it a bit
pointless
• Re-do at home any recordings they are not happy
with
– Even fewer students do this…
• Read my comments on selected recordings
• Select their best recordings for me to evaluate
• Add their best recordings to their e-portfolios

16. What can the teacher do with these recordings?
• Listen to some of them ( 1, or 2 a week?)
– I usually select short ones like pronunciation
and reading aloud or grammar exercises
• Write comments on these using ipadio on
a web page
– using a phone or tablet or a computer
• Evaluate 1 recording a week selected by
each student

17. Write comments on these ipadio
recordings

18. Evaluate 1 recording a week
selected by each student
• 1024
• Listen once to the first minute of your recording and pause when you get to
each of these grammar mistakes and take some notes:
• Hannah stopped just in time
• she got out of the car
• she looked at the man
• Jamie got in the car
• they ordered a cup of coffee
• Here are some pronunciation problems. Listen to my recording and repeat
the grammar mistakes and the pronunciation mistakes. There should be
time to repeat them. Use your mobile to record my version and yours and
then listen and compare them:
• across /r/ car sorry /r/
• Nearly bar

19. Evaluate 1 recording a week
selected by each student
• Your pronunciation was good but in all these problems you made a mistake
with the letter 'r' Listen to me, and then look at the BBC pronunciation pages
about /r/. Bar and car are not said with an /r/ they are /ba:/ and /ka:/ just a
long /a/ and nearly doesn't have an /r/, either
• Listen again to the first minute of your recording and stop at each of these
grammar and pronunciation errors above and say each word correctly.
• Very fluent, but a few grammar problems and one or two pronunciation
problems to solve.
• I've just spent 8 minutes on this. Please make sure that you spend at least
as much time as me trying to learn from your mistakes. If you like you can
make a new recording and post it here.
• Here's the link to /r/ from BBC Learning English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/otherconst6

20. Students add their best
recordings to their e-portfolios
•https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx#share

21. Students add their best
recordings to their e-portfolios
https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx?#broadcasts

22. Students add their best
recordings to their e-portfolios
https://tuleka.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/begin-rob-and-jennifer/

23. Student opinions about recording
themselves
» Pre-intermediate:
• 4 people out of 7 mentioned that recording
themselves had been useful.
• 3 people out of 6 said they would like to record
themselves next year
• 4 out of 6 said they would like to have a class library or
use the library next year
» Intermediate:
• 3 out of 4 students mentioned recording themselves
as important
• 3 out of 4 mentioned listening to their recordings
• All 4 students said that a class library or active use of the
library by teachers/students was very important

24. Pending analysis of my experiment with
evaluating recordings 2014-2015
• I evaluated 169 recordings made by my students
and, in theory, selected by them as their best
work of the fortnight and spent on average 9.7
minutes on each one.
• Based on the statistics I gathered, a limit of 5
minutes' feedback should generate on average 6
Grammar, and 3 Pronunciation problems, which
is a total of 9 problems, which is surely enough!
• I calculate that listening to just the first minute
three times will probably take five minutes,
particularly if I record the pronunciation myself
instead of providing links to www.howjsay.com .
Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014

25. Pending analysis of my experiment with
evaluating recordings 2014-2015
• I tested listening to just the first minute with 6 recordings
and in fact, it took close to 5 minutes and I was able to
give an average of 4/5 grammar points and 5/6
pronunciation points and record my pronunciation of the
pronunciation points and upload the recording to
Edmodo.
• As the average time I spent on feedback this year (2013-
2014) was 9.7 minutes every two weeks, limiting
feedback to 5 minutes next year but doing it every week
will make the total amount of time I spend on feedback
roughly the same, but will make it more digestible as 9
things to work on at a time will be more practical than 18
things at a time!
Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014

26. Pending analysis of my experiment with
evaluating recordings 2014-2015
Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014