brequist (2016). Submission for harmony in nature 4: Design 9001650. Adobe Photoshop. Retrieved from http://www.designcrowd.com
I explored many sites for adding audio to a blog or website. My favorites were http://www.vocaroo.com, http://www.voki.com, and http://www.audiopal.com. I found them all to be “user friendly.” I am placing Voki at number one for student use as well. I loved Voki because it gave me a chance to be super creative. After creating a character that speaks your chosen words, the eyes of the character move and follow your cursor around the screen. Students will have fun while learning with Voki. Vocaroo places second, and seems to be the fastest and easiest without visuals if you just want to record a poem and have it ready to go. Placing third is audiopal, which works but claims to make things easy by sending your recording to you through email. Alas, I did not receive this email after trying twice and even looking in spam.
In addition, I followed links to several interesting podcasts. Since I teach Science ESL, I am always looking for great visuals to support text, and podcasts are an excellent way for students to both hear and see content that sometimes covers multiple topics. I was particularly interested in STEM podcasts. I have showed students NASA’s website in the past, but did not realize until now that there are links to so many good podcasts through NASA. We have covered planets and space content in my classes, and my kids were astonished to learn that Mercury has no air we could breathe and very little water (while Earth has so much of both). So, I chose a podcast about Mercury that I think they will like. Here it is: https://youtu.be/Gibaxh9x7O0
This podcast is also great because it gives a date and time when certain effects can be seen through a telescope. This event was on May 9th, so it has passed, but what a great thing for future students to check and perhaps look forward to following.
ScienceAtNASA (Producer). (2016, May 5). The 2016 transit of mercury. [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved from http://youtube.com/sciencecasts.
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I loved the podcast you shared! One of my students this year was so into space and anything in outer space, I just know he would love this and I am totally emailing this link to his mom!
I agree with you also about Voki, one of my co-teachers used Voki in her classroom this year, her students just love it, and even being young 3rd graders they were very successful with it due to it’s ease of use!
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