Read a great entry on Doug Belshaw’s blog on using Twitter with students. I’d mentioned using this with Studywiz and the RSS Reader in Studywiz, but Doug’s post goes in to a lot more detail and suggest some learning applications for using Twitter.
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I have discovered three websites that allow students to add subtitles to video.
These sites take video from other sites and allow students to add subtitles. A teacher could upload a video clip to a site like YouTube or TeacherTube, and provide students with the link to this video in one of the subitile websites.
MFL teachers could use this to support students in developing a target language. Geography teachers might use this to annotate a video of a volcano, demonstrating students understanding of a concept. English teachers might use this to allow students to add infromation about a scene in a play.
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I discovered Gabcast last week accidently whilst trying to find AudioBlogger for Blogger, which apparently no longer exists.
Gabcast allows you to post a voice recording to your blog or the Gabcast site using a phone. There is an RSS feed for your account, so others can subscribe to your recordings.
Examples on the Gabcast site have people phoning in messages from trips round the world. You are provided with a phone number in the UK, and enter your account number and passkey before recording your message. It was very simple to use.
Thinking as a teacher, Gabcast could be used when on Geography field trips to update parents on the events of the day whilst away. It could be used to record a learning journey, recording what a class or group has learnt during the day.
School sports teams could phone in match reports after games. Language teachers could record messages as though they were a spy for students to listen to and decipher using the target language.
It might also be an interesting way of logging homework or reminders for students.
The teacher can control the posts by ensuring they keep the passkey unknown and change it frequently to stop students phoning in their own messages. If it is just a teacher using this account it would be straight forward to maintain the security of those posting to the account.
E-safety concerns would require students and staff using this to be aware that no student should be identifiable from the recording - so first names only.
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