Communicate » Audio http://ckendall.edublogs.org Musings about teaching and learning world languages Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:55:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Voki http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2008/10/14/voki/ http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2008/10/14/voki/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:38:39 +0000 Cindy Kendall http://ckendall.edublogs.org/?p=39 Voki allows the user to create an avatar and give it voice. It is easy to customize the voki, record your voice (up to 60 seconds) or upload an audio file. I created a quick voki to welcome workshop participants back from break. Do you recognize the character?

Does Voki have staying power? Well, I don’t know. It’s cute, it’s easy – like many technology authoring platforms, it is up to the user to give it meaning. Rumor has it that there are some high school students I know creating a variety of political vokis and sending them to each other, just for fun.

]]> http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2008/10/14/voki/feed/ 0 Feel like gabbing? http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2007/10/14/8/ http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2007/10/14/8/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:08:50 +0000 Cindy Kendall http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2007/10/14/8/ Via Jessica Haxhi, an easy to use web-based voice recording tool. Gabcast is a free utility to create sound files by calling an 800 number from your phone. No advertising, easy interface. Took me all of 5 minutes to set up, record, and publish here. Audio files can be downloaded as MP3 files. Slick. Audio quality is acceptable – sounds like a phone. By clicking the link below you will be sent over to the Gabcast website. Theoretically, I could save the MP3 file and put it up on DivShare, which may be needed depending on the number and size of audio files allowed in Gabcast’s free account. But for now I will leave it as the code is presented by Gabcast.

Gabcast! Communicate #1

How could a world language teacher use this?

  • -Students or teachers could call in and create audio files for use on blogs, wikis, or simple assignments.
  • -Students could each create their own channel and create a library of audio files
  • -Gabcast has a conference calling feature – I didn’t explore it much, but potentially teachers-students, or student-student could record a voice conversation via cell phone.
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