Sunday, November 29, 2015

@Vocaroo

I found a new website, http://vocaroo.com. This website allows for you to record your voice and share. All you do is click record, save, and pick a way to upload the recording. You can share the recording via website link, via QR code, and many others (including downloading). This could be extremely useful when providing students their accommodations of having a test/quiz/assignment read to them. Having students listen to a recording of the exam being read to them is beneficial because it allows for students to remain in the classroom with all students when they are taking their exam, it allows for consistency for how the question is read to the students, and it allows for students to move at their own pace through an exam. Students can chose to have a question read or chose to skip it. Allowing students to move at their own pace will help with classroom management. Using this resource requires work upfront, but it allows the student to be in control of their accommodations.

 How this could really look:
1. Create a test online
2. Go to http://vocaroo.com and record yourself reading a question to the test.
 3. Save the link for the question. Hyperlink the question to the vocaroo link of your recording of the question. This allow the student to play the recording of the question if they prefer and as many times as they need to comprehend the question.

A second way you could use this:
1. Create a test on paper
2. Go to http://vocaroo.com and record yourself reading a question to the test.
 3. Save the QR code for the question. Paste the QR code on the test next to the question (or even on a separate numbered sheet for already created tests). The student will have to download a QR reader on their phone and can then scan the image to listen to the question being read to them.

You can record all the questions individually so that the student can link to certain questions they need or you can record all the questions on one link in which the student needs to pause between questions. Recording all the questions on one link will not allow a student to pick and chose whether or not they want a certain question read. One link will require a student to listen to the whole exam and will make replaying a single question more difficult.

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