Comments on Tech Transformation: 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Recording Learning

For language or word choice activities, try todays...

2012-02-01T12:22:51.067+01:00

For language or word choice activities, try todaysmeet.com for sharing words/phrases, etc. in a live web session. Students can be given anonymous login names (no registration required) or use their names if they wish. A session is set up and ready to go in 30 seconds. I also use wallwisher for variety and similiar goals. There are many other of these types of live panel sites as well. Enjoy! teachers.saschina.org/aolivas

As a French teacher, can I just say Danke for the ...

2012-01-31T06:35:47.248+01:00

As a French teacher, can I just say Danke for the recognition of the incredible applicability of thes Web 2.0 tools for language teachers! I use almost all of these. For Go animate, I prefer to have the students record their own voices to go with the animation, primarily because this is one of the times I see students truly (and independently) reflecting on and assessing their own learning. They really do listen to their own voices and refine their recordings (for language use, vocabulary choice and/or pronunciation).
I'll be excited to try WeVideo. Another tool I use is no longer free (unfortunately), but it is the one and only tool I pay for because it is so powerful in terms of its ability to impact students' listening comprehension and speaking ability: Lingt (http://lingtlanguage.com). There is a free version I would recommend anyone try first, but it is quite limited compared to the full version--so much so that if you do like the way the site works and you want to keep using it with your students you'll have to pay something.

VOKI!!! My students love to record their voices wi...

2012-01-30T23:50:16.934+01:00

VOKI!!! My students love to record their voices with the animated avatars! Free accounts and students can do it from home as well.

Many tools like Evernote allow you to EMBED media,...

2012-01-30T03:10:26.932+01:00

Many tools like Evernote allow you to EMBED media, e.g. Audio.

I agree that a mobile phone or iPad would be an ex...

2012-01-28T20:52:25.239+01:00

I agree that a mobile phone or iPad would be an excellent way for teachers to record learning. However I am presenting to primary teachers and most of our primary students do not have their own phones in school. Therefore I'm really looking for tools that students and teachers can use from the sets of laptops that we have available.

Maybe you more generally refer to mobile devices t...

2012-01-28T20:12:45.806+01:00

Maybe you more generally refer to mobile devices that have the capability to capture audio, images and video while students are on the go...perhaps on a quest of some form where they are relations their learning to the real world? Some of the tools you mention provide easy upload from phones.

Thanks Dave, I was really looking for Web 2.0 tool...

2012-01-28T17:25:47.438+01:00

Thanks Dave, I was really looking for Web 2.0 tools so that the students' work could be stored in the cloud and accessed by any of the teachers anytime and anyplace. I was discussing this with some homeroom teachers last week at a planning meeting and they love the idea that they can view (and assess) the students' work from home, for example, rather than being limited to what the students store in their network files.

Maggie, I'm not sure whether you're lookin...

2012-01-28T13:55:15.884+01:00

Maggie, I'm not sure whether you're looking for combination tools, but for recording and editing sound files, there's Audacity. In my first hour of fiddling with it, I was able to record a voice track and a separate music track, then experiment by having the music come in, fade out, and so on.