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Online Voice Tools for Language and Literacy
Michael CoghlanSeptember 11th, 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
DialogicMinimalistic
Reflective; combination
of dialogic and monologic
Most structured form
ofcommunication
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 BoardPodcasting (or other audio hosting) SiteVirtual Classroom