Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Vocaroo
Vocaroo is an easy device that can be used to record your voice. You just need to click on the recoding button. you can listen to your voice and if you are happy with the recording, you can either send it to whoever you want by email or post it on the Internet.
It is good for language classes for a number of reasons:
It is easy to use and it just needs Internet connection.
Teacher can use it to give students instructions or listen to their talk and give them feedback.
Student can use it to practise their speech and pronunciation.
It can connect listening, speaking and reading.
It can be used to connect class to home
How can it be used in language classes?
It might be used as home work. After discussion interesting topics in the class such as students' favorite hobbies, describing their families or which country they want to visit and why, The teacher ask them to record their talk about one of these topics and send it to s/he. It is also suitable for classroom. Students can record themselves when they discuss something in the class or when they create dialogues and interviews. They may record themselves during reading a poem, a novel.
Limitations
It is not strictly podcast because it is not syndicated.
You can not make videos. It is just audio tool
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