Dear All
Please don't think that your post has to be exactly the same as below. This is just an example.
Jon
The Blog Post - this is what you have to do:
You make a post on the Sub-Module Blog (click on the link on the sub-module home page to access it), with this information in it:
Describe an ICT resource which is available to you, as a teacher, or to your pupils, paying particular attention to how it works and how it can be used.
This 'ICT resource' might be a commercially-available computer programme, a tool (such as Flash, Skype or an iPhone) or a well-filled website (i.e. a web site with lots of functions and activities, not just a single page of information).
Model Blog Post
The Olympus VN-600PC digital voice recorder.
This is a very simple machine which is easy to use and not inhibiting in the classroom.
Students like to perform in front of others and because they only recorded their voices, they pay particular attention to what they say.
The results can be posted on podcasting sites. The simple thing is that names and faces are not necessarily posted. The teacher can post the work locally or on a distant server.
If the teacher plays back the recordings directly to the students, it is best done through a speaker system, such as a sound system as the tiny speaker on the voice recorder is tinny and difficult to hear when at a high volume.
The students are motivated to rehearse and practice projecting their voices and improving the sentence stress and individual word pronunciation.
In my opinion the beauty of this system is that the technology is simple and doesn’t require moving classrooms or bulky equipment. The results can be played again for commenting on. Students can easily rerecord some work to try to improve it.
Because there are no images, it is easier to get parental permission to publish a student podcast, for example.
Also because there are no images, the students can concentrate on pronunciation, intonation and stress, and hear results.
The results can be listened to on a laptop or posted on a podcasting site.
Further work could be podcasts on particular topics, class designed listening exercises, or a class news programme.
The Blog Comment - this is what you have to do:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flexlearning.se/englishcourses/ictmodule1bc/ictbuspages.htm
You read someone else's post on the Sub-Module Blog (click on the link on the sub-module home page and then on the right group blog to access it), and:Write a critical analysis of that Blog Post.You can choose any of the Blog Posts you like - it doesn't matter if someone else has already written a Blog Comment about it.
Model Blog Comment
Hi Jon
I found your post interesting. Your idea is simple and I like the idea of motivating students to improve their vocabulary. However, I think that you may find that there are easier way to make good voice recordings with a better quality. I use my smart phone or the recording studio on my laptop. Once you get the hang of it, it really isn’t complicated and the laptop speakers are of a good enough quality.
I also like the idea of making news programmes or podcasts. However, if this is broadcast on the internet, even if there are no names or faces, permission from parents is probably necessary. If it is , why not go all the way and video the students? This is surely more motivating than only hearing voices.
Hello.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of getting the pupils to speak through a digital voice recorder. It´s a bit similar to my suggestions about Story Phones in my blogpost from December. I think it´s a great thing to make even the shy pupils to speak out more. I also like the points you make about that this will make the pupils paying a lot more attention to their pronunciation when there are no pictures involved. Therefore this might be a better example than mine about making simple presentations through Photo Story (another blogpost from me in December).
I think it´s a good idea to listen to yourself talking in English because you might correct your pronunciation when you´re able to hear the difference between Englishmen presenting similar words + sentences and your own recordings. I´ve done recordings with my own daughter when she was reading in Swedish to make her listen to her pronunciation and correct herself with sounds that have been difficult for her. She have had special training to learn more about sounds in Swedish that has been difficult for her. It worked better to do this training when she herself discovered how she pronunced certain sounds not totally correct. I really think it´s a good way to train pronunciation and sounds through recordings like this because I´ve seen it at home with my daughter to talk in Swedish correctly. Thank you for your advice to do recordings by the digital voice recorder from Olympus in the school at Englishlessons. I take a note about it for the future...
Regards from Ann Goliath-Pillóla