Bilbao Teaching Centre: November 2008

Monday 17 November 2008

Simple online voice recorder

No registration, logging on or faffing; just press record, speak and then upload to email or get the embed code... now that´s handy.

http://www.daftdoggy.com/recorder/record.php

A good excuse to set students speaking homework!

Bring students texts to life

Another winner

http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php

This site allows you to make online books which you can then add photos to liven up. No need to register, just begin by typing in the title of your book and your name, add the next page and then you can begin with your text and continue for as many pages as you need. For each page you can search for related words to create images (uses flickr, the online photo site) to put around the text. The final product looks pretty impressive and I´m sure the students would love it!

When you´ve finished just click "publish", to save the book on the site. You also can "blog this" which will give you the usual embed code to paste on your site. Shame you can´t print.

Adding voice to youtube videos

This is a nice site

http://www.outshouts.com/

just search for a youtube video, load it up then record yourself introducing it. Plenty of ideas for students
eg being the Dj introducing their favourite song
narrating the story of the video but with a few errors that the others have to find
Making some listening questions for other students

I´m sure there´s infinite uses as whatever you can find on youtube you can load on this, so films clips, interviews, even students own work.

Has the usual embed or email facilities so will sit nicely on your blog or wiki.