Audio+&+Sound

AUDIO & SOUND

**Using Voice/Audio Tools** - There is great value in letting student voice be their actual voice. For many students, taking the pencil and/or keyboard out of the learning process allows them to more easily share their ideas. It can also encourage students to hone their speaking and articulation skills. This table will explore a number of tools and apps that provide speaking and listening to be integrated into the classroom.

Note: AudioBoo and SoundCloud get their power through teachers having accounts and integrating these tools into the classroom. Create accounts! You should create accounts for the others as well.

[|__AudioBoo__] Read this - [|__AudioBoo Easily Create & Share Audio__]  - Students can respond to one another with voice comments.
 * Web Tools: **

[|__SoundCloud__] Read these -
 *  [|__Using Soundcloud in Language Course__]  (directed for Lang. classes but applicable to all curriculum). I love that you can comment on posts just like a blog AND these comments can be attached to a specific spot in the audio post.
 * [|__Audio Teaching Tool__]

[|__Voki__]  - [|__http://vimeo.com/60915435__]  It can not be overstated how much kids love this tool. They will actually write more just to hear their voki say it back to them, and their peers will actually listen to them. It is also nice that the voki can use a different voice as some students do not like to hear their own voice played back to them.

[|__Fotobabble__]  - add voice to images in a snap. Great post - [|__http://www.theconsultants-e.com/resources/ToolsResources/toolaug2012.aspx__]

[|__Croak.it__]  - Make mp3s in a snap! Kids love this tool.

[|__SoundGecko__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Turn pdfs into mp3s...super easy and very cool!


 * iP*d Apps: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fotobabble - [|__http://vimeo.com/50493518__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AudioBoo

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SoundCloud

[|__A Teachers Guide to Pod casts__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For Your Reading Pleasure: **

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