Hello every one,
Today on my blog I'll review some interesting digital tools, all focusing on improving your students speaking skills - taken from M.r Ross's call technology in education course.
1. So the first tool is 'Voice Chat' -
'Voice Chat' today is a very basic type of digital tool which is used daily by many of us (I was careful not to say all..), WhatsApp is a good example for this, though definitely not the only one.
Skype, Google hangouts, Messenger and more tools can also cater a voice chatting platform..
This type of tool can be used in class to enhance students' talking, or writing (chatting with text) in an interesting and interactive way.
One simple example is connecting with students from a different country and developing a chat with them.
2. The second tool is called 'voice thread' - a 'group audio blog' which you as a teacher can upload a picture to, and the students can write, record or video themselves commenting about it, enhancing writing or speaking.
There are probably many more ways of using this free tool, try it out here: https://voicethread.com/myvoice/ - only required to register before.
3. The next two tools also deal with improving the students' speaking skills:
Chatterpix - an app you can download for free, giving you an option to animate any picture with your own recordings. students can take the picture and literally 'put words in its mouth', their words of course..
Just note that it will probably suit younger students better, and they must have an i pad/phone.
you can download it here - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatterpix-kids/id734046126
The fourth, and pretty cool I would say tool is 'Adobe Spark Video' which allows you to create a kind of slide - video. You can input pictures and text and record sound tracks. you can also just put a video in as well.
It could be for great use while doing projects or demonstrations by students or teachers alike..
find it here: https://spark.adobe.com/
Fifth and last tool for today is 'Flipgrid' or actually a new feature in 'Flipgrid' - which is the whiteboard function. With this function you can basically create a (maximum 3 minute) video with yourself together with a whiteboard background you can draw and write on while still recording.
This feature can be useful for a flipped class room, where a teacher can teach a 3 minute rule or any other material before the lesson, send it to the students to watch beforehand, leaving the lesson itself mostly for practice.
link over here: https://info.flipgrid.com/
As you noticed I gave you only examples for the tools above, sure though that you can find and expand there usage to many different ways.
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