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Overview
Overview
Audio tools includes audio recording and editing, audio sharing. These sources allow learners and teachers access to audio files. Learners can record their audio files about their interests or course contents to share to the public.
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Affordances
SoundCloud is able to access upload files via URLs, and can embed sounds files in social platform, such as Facebook or Twitter. Registered users can listen to unlimited audio and may upload to 180 minutes audio to their profile. User are allowed to create playlists and to “Like”, “Report”, “Share” or “Follow” another user.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
There are many ways to use SoundCloud in the classroom. SoundCloud lets students perform public speaking with a virtual audience. Students can record speaking files and share to their teachers and classmates. Students also able to record their reading practice and listen back to hear their voice.
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Freesound is a collaborative repository of CC licensed audio samples, and non-profit organization. Users are able to upload sounds to the website. It covers a wide range of subjects, from field recording to synthesized sounds. Audio content in the repository can be tagged and is analyzed using the open-source audio analysis tool Essentia, which powers the similarity search functionality of the site.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Students can search the topic or interesting sounds file via the website. For example, one sounds file is titled sings of birds and tagged as “bird”, “music” and “classical”. Students are able to search this file and click those tags to find more similar sounds. Students are also to share their sounds file to other students or “like” their classmates’ sound files.
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Affordances
Vocaroo is an online tool that allows users to record, send, and download voice message. The tool can be accessed directly without bogging into an account. The voice message can be shared on different website and social sites. The link to the audio can be shared just by coping and pasting. The voice message can be download in different formats, including mp3, Ogg, flag, and wav.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
The tool is friendly to users for teachers and learners. Teachers and learners use Vocaroo in different ways in the classroom. For example, leaners and teachers can provide vice comments. They can share the voice in google document, blog, or LMS. Learners can also record and listen to themselves. Another class activity can be podcasting.
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