can you hear us? ace e-showcase

http://snipr.com/hearus

ACE providers:

PRACE, Carlton, Glenroy, Moreland &

Coonara

audio and voice

technologies in the

classroom


Student conversation as learning resource

+ Record conversations

+ Talk about images in Voicethread

+ Record student presentations

+ Record vox-pops on excursion

+ Interview learners, upload audio to wikispace and invite comment

Preston Reservoir ACE& Victorian Learnscope

prace.vic.edu.au

ace [at] michalk.id.au


Improve access to printed text+ Record easy-to-read books and other texts for language-learning:

+ Record student stories using a range of recording devices:

+ laptop with audacity,

+ iRiver mp3 recorder, and

+ a Nokia mobile phone.

+ Students then have option to listen back to their own story.


Audio text as learning material+ Listen to podcasts on the web, including

+ audio from abc.net.au,

+ simple English news,

+ Breaking News English.

Many of these resources have transcripts or activities (which may need to be adapted).

+ Engage ESL learners with

+ Protea Textware, including International Picture Dictionary and Issues in English,

with built-in grammar and vocabulary exercises


Engage learners through audio and multimedia+ Students embed their own audio-enabled avatars in a classroom wiki

+ Make personalised "Ringtones" to engage learners

+ Students create Christmas cards in powerpoint .. with voiceover for stronger connection

+ Watch You Tube videos via projector while studying literacy, cultural history and current affairs, eg Waltzing Matilda, The Nutty Professor; also Behind the News video class (abc TV) with transcript for reading and listening

+ Use videos at How Stuff Works for studying instructional language in a literacy class


Communication between learner groups

+ Run Live Sessions between different classrooms, using skype, speakers and a microphone with a long cable

+ Set up an inter-class project, where one group interviews another, eg about their life stories, edit this into a series of digital stories.


Create multimedia for presentation and publication+ Record student presentations to mp3 and convert into digital story

+ Work with images and sound to create digital stories from learners' language and experience

+ Students make their own digital stories, on topics including ..

+ Student embeds digital story into MySpace page for social networking

+ Students make videos including Local News, editing audio in Audacity, before re-mixing audio and video in Movie Maker (Windows)


Listening activitiesPeople at Converge created this list on the day .. What other activities would you adapt to a blended solution?


Challenges

+ Sessional teacher time

+ Ailing equipment

+ Windows audio nightmare

+ Steep learning curves

+ Range of abilities (both teacher and student)

Mission: support and nurture beginners, challenge and support

the leaders !!

In other words: Keep it simple.


Tools for the classroom

Digital story Voicethread, movie maker

Avatar Voki

Telephone Skype

Screencast Jing, camstudio

Audio on the web wikispaces.com


Audio technologies in ACE

Preston Reservoir Adult Community Education (PRACE)

Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre

Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre

Moreland Adult Education

Coonara Community House

Credits + Thanks for funding from Australian Flexible Learning Framework http://flexiblelearning.net.au/VIC

+ Thanks also for “creative commons” licensed photos from Flickr users: Grant Neufeld, yousoundhollow, afeman, danieljohnsonr, penmachine and pablosanz - all at flickr.comContact

+ Michael Chalk at PRACE

+ 9462 6077

+ ace [at] michalk.id.au

+ http://michalk.id.au/

Project Wiki

http://canuhearus.acfe.vic.edu.au/