Sunday, December 27, 2015

Explaining ideas orally vs. written

Need a way to have students record their voice and explain their thinking? From any device, go to https://online-voice-recorder.com/.   Simply click record, and students can record up to 7 minutes of themselves talking.  They can also do this with tablets, using an app like Easy Voice Recorder.  The recordings are saved as an audio file that can easily be added to other applications.   For example, the recording can be uploaded to WeVideo, Google Slideshow, Padlet or Thinglink.


Some instructional ideas for use are to have kids explain how they solved a math problem, talk about the steps to conduct an experiment, reflect on a mentor text, or create a dialogue with a partner in another language.  They could also type up a story/essay/poem in Google Docs, and then insert a link of them reading the text for fluency practice, or a link to them reflecting on the piece.


And there's more! Imagine if they could take a picture of something, draw on it, and talk about it.  I love this app Clarisketch!  

Click HERE for samples of Clarisketch.




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