Showing posts with label Pronunciation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pronunciation. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 January 2011

Record your voice and send it to your teacher Part 2 (Only voice for shy students)



What is this?
This Vocaroo has a wonderful function which can record your voice and send it to anyone.

Why is the content good for language learning?
  • It can expand the possibility of new style of classroom
  • It is totally free

How might you use it in a language teaching context?
  • This tool is useful outside the class.
  • The teacher can get students to record about any topic as homework and send it to her.
  • Any topic will be good, it might be about students' family, hobbies and school life.
  • The teacher can correct students' pronunciation, intonation and expressions.
  • The teacher can introduce the best perfomance in the next class.


Limitations
  • You need a microphone for recording.
  • It can not include video.

Record your voice and send it to your teacher Part 1



What is this?
This mailVU can allow you to record yourself and send it to anyone. There are another features below;
-Plays on most smart phones
-Video mails up to 10 minutes.
-Self-destruct after # of views
-Retract video email at will
-Send and Read notifications
-Video stored up to 365 days
-No account or downloads

Why is the content good for language learning?
  • It can expand the possibility of new style of classroom
  • It is totally free

How might you use it in a language teaching context?
  • This tool is useful outside the class.
  • The teacher can get students to record about any topic as homework and send it to her.
  • Any topic will be good, so the teacher can say 'SHOW & TELL' which is an activity to get students have something and simply talk about it.
  • The teacher can introduce the best perfomance in the next class.

My soft toy can be a student!

Limitations
  • You need microphone and webcamera for recording
  • You cannot embed it to your blog