online voice tools for language and literacy

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

ANY QUESTIONS?COMMENTS?

e: michaelc@chariot.net.auw: http://protopage.com/michaelc