September 1, 2012

Using SoundCloud in a Language Course

From http://www.freetech4teachers.com

From Richard Byrne’s blog:

SoundCloud is a free tool for creating and sharing sound tracks. Today, I showed it to some teachers at the Bancroft School in Massachusetts. When I showed the option for inserting text comments into the sound tracks a teacher spoke up with an idea for using Sound Cloud in a world languages course.

The suggestion the teacher made was to have students record spoken tracks on Sound Cloud and share them with her. Then she could use the comment feature to provide feedback that is tied directly to each student's recording. The comments could be tied to the exact second at which a student pronounces something incorrectly, uses the wrong verb form, or to praise a student for pronouncing a new word particularly well.

Read the full blog post at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/08/using-soundcloud-in-language-course.html
SoundCloud is available at http://soundcloud.com

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