Showing posts with label Audio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audio. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Day 7 Podcasting
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PODCASTING
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1. Create sound file (podcast) through Garageband, Audacity, or Mynah (Gordon recommends but all flash-based support will be discontinued on September 2012)
2. Upload sound file to audioboo and embed onto one's blog OR
3. Upload sound file to Dropbox and add students to share group
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CROWDSOURCING PRO-D:
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TO EXPLORE
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languagepod101 (free trial for 7 days) Advanced Spanish study ! My login details is in my email.
PODCASTING
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1. Create sound file (podcast) through Garageband, Audacity, or Mynah (Gordon recommends but all flash-based support will be discontinued on September 2012)
2. Upload sound file to audioboo and embed onto one's blog OR
3. Upload sound file to Dropbox and add students to share group
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CROWDSOURCING PRO-D:
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- Listservs
- A mailing list that serves as a forum. Examples here.
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TO EXPLORE
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languagepod101 (free trial for 7 days) Advanced Spanish study ! My login details is in my email.
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Day 4 Homework: Embedding music on a blog
Music Playlist at MixPod.com
I have provided a music-only version of Shakira's song Suerte. The idea is to get them to write their own lyrics to the song in groups based around a theme that they have chosen. This is going to act as a unit revision of the all the themes that have been covered, where they can apply all the grammatical knowledge they have learned, and use specific sets of vocabulary according to the theme they have chosen. For example, if they have chosen the theme of Sports, they will be writing the lyrics around Sports, using all the grammatical knowledge across the unit to accomplish the task.
Day 4 Music in the Classroom
http://www2.sd38.bc.ca/~GPowell@sd38.bc.ca/LLED480D/FOV4-000B8880/day04
Resources on Spanish music
- The irrelevance of a language without its culture (e.g. Esperanto)
- TEFL website that wants you to subscribe in exchange of lesson plans that use music. Can be modified for any languages!
- Spanish track list on MySpace
- Music notator service (free?) for musical groups to compose a piece of music
Resources on Spanish music
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
More voice plays
Create your own QR code embedded with a audio clip. Can be used for a scavenger hunt?
How? copy the QR code, paste on a worksheet and stuff in every student's agenda.
Vozme to generate mp3
Voki avatar that speaks a script which you put in
**** Looks interesting: Spoken text ****
Other audio apps
VoiceThread (+iOS app), http://voicethread.com/
Translate and Speak http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/
How? copy the QR code, paste on a worksheet and stuff in every student's agenda.
Vozme to generate mp3
Voki avatar that speaks a script which you put in
**** Looks interesting: Spoken text ****
Other audio apps
VoiceThread (+iOS app), http://voicethread.com/
Translate and Speak http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/
Voice Thread
VoiceThread allows the teacher to comment as a slide show goes on in the background
- Teacher can do funny voices as a conversation between two characters of a story
- Teacher can prompt response in class as the recorded voice pauses
Day 2 continued
To save your own audio clips that you can embed onto your blog
- Audioboo (iPhone/iPod/iPad app available)
- Chirbit
- Vocaroo
*Note!!! They may not keep your files for too long
Student created samples
Get instant feedback from students. Listen to an ongoing record of their progress. Using the Audioboo app on an iPod Touch, students can upload to your acount directly, or record to their own space and forward their best effort. (Vocaroo will let students record and email to a mailbox of your choosing.)
Dropvox lets students send straight to your Dropbox from an iPod
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/dropvox/
Student created samples
Get instant feedback from students. Listen to an ongoing record of their progress. Using the Audioboo app on an iPod Touch, students can upload to your acount directly, or record to their own space and forward their best effort. (Vocaroo will let students record and email to a mailbox of your choosing.)
Dropvox lets students send straight to your Dropbox from an iPod
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/dropvox/
Day 2 Audio in the Classroom
Students' online footprint
How to protect students' identity online when we ask them to create a blog? For the blogs of the teacher educators, we do not post their contact details or too much immediately identifiable details. Some school districts, in fact, allow photos of students to be posted online, as long as a release form is signed.
Discussion of the Day 1 article
Elisabet shares her experience of learning English. There was no native speakers in her learning environment. Elisabet notes that her listening skills nowadays still depend on the speaker. It is important to be strategic about the kind of listening materials to assign students of the appropriate level. Some say that materials need to be level appropriate, while others say that they need to be one step beyond the current level of students.
Content
Example: C1 Spanish, female voice
How to protect students' identity online when we ask them to create a blog? For the blogs of the teacher educators, we do not post their contact details or too much immediately identifiable details. Some school districts, in fact, allow photos of students to be posted online, as long as a release form is signed.
Discussion of the Day 1 article
Elisabet shares her experience of learning English. There was no native speakers in her learning environment. Elisabet notes that her listening skills nowadays still depend on the speaker. It is important to be strategic about the kind of listening materials to assign students of the appropriate level. Some say that materials need to be level appropriate, while others say that they need to be one step beyond the current level of students.
Content
- To insert something like a "Word of the day" gadget, go to insert gadget in Blogspot's "layout", insert HTML/JavaScript
Example: go to Learn Japanese: get your own widget, some websites will allow you to customise the widget. Now update this post, before you go to insert the widget.
- Listen a minute (ESL)
When it comes to audio files that do not come with an embed code, use this code and insert the link of the audio file
<blockquote><EMBED height="20 CHANGE IF YOU WANT" SRC="http://www.listenaminute.com/a/accidents.mp3" VOLUME="50" loop="false" controls="console" AUTOSTART="FALSE" width="300"></embed></blockquote>
<blockquote><EMBED height="20 CHANGE IF YOU WANT" SRC="http://www.listenaminute.com/a/accidents.mp3" VOLUME="50" loop="false" controls="console" AUTOSTART="FALSE" width="300"></embed></blockquote>
- Audio-Lingua (European languages with Euro standards)
Example: C1 Spanish, female voice
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