• Voice Online – the Missing Link?
  Presentation at EDMEDIA, 2003 by (Webheads) Michael Coghlan, Aiden Yeh, and Dafne Gonzalez: http://michaelcoghlan.net/edmedia/mcsession.htm

and at

• Learning Technologies Conference, 2003 (Webheads Michael Coghlan, Anne Fox, and Jonathan Finkelstein from LearningTimes
  http://videolinq.tafe.net/learning2003/paperspdf/CoghlanLT2003paper.pdf
• Archive of presentation at Learning Technologies Conference:
  http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=274114 (LearningTimes membership required)
• HEARING EVERY VOICE – WITH THE AID OF THE INTERNET; CLESOL Conference Workshop; archive of keynote address (LearningTimes membership required)); keynote text (September 2004)
• Is Voice Online for You? It's Easy, Interactive and Cost Effective.(Education in Health Care conference;October 2005)
  

• An excellent article from the TLT Group (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) on why synchronous tools have a place in Distance Education:
  http://www.tltgroup.org/CommunityConnectedness/SynchTools.htm
• A day in the life of an online language educator. Webheads founder Vance Stevens writing about the life of Chinese webhead Yaodong:
  http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej23/int.html
• Distance Learning and Synchronous Interaction: http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1042
• FINDING YOUR VOICE ONLINE - An Inquiry into the Use of Online Voice Applications in Higher Education (Knowledge Tree; edition 5; June 2004)

Aiden Yeh

• Listening and Conversation: http://dcyeh.com/sy0304/2ndsem/groupa_projects/happy/
• Language and Culture, a series of online discussions on various topics:
  http://www.geocities.com/wentzao2004/culture/2ndsem/online_sked.htm

  Buthaina Alothman

• Students' oral presentations:
  http://alothman-b.tripod.com/present_162.htm
• Skyping between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the US http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/05dec/language.html

• Chris Jones' Students: Interviews with Webhead EFL/ESL teachers (April 05); see student feedback on this event in their blogs
• Anne Fox’s Streetlife project (intercultural communication): http://streetlife.homestead.com

• several 'cutting edge' voice tools listed and annotated HERE
• List of many available synchronous tools: http://thinkofit.com/webconf/realtime.htm

Podcasts recommended by Webhead Graham Stanley (thank you Graham):

ESL specific

• English Idioms & Slang: http://www.englishcaster.com/blogs/
  (short, regular, vocabulary based)
• The Bob & Rob show: http://www.englishcaster.com/bobrob/
  (conversational, fun, British & American vocab/cultural differences)
• Room 208: http://bobsprankle.com/blog/
  (not ESL, but an excellent example of a Young Learner student planned and produced podcast)

General podcast, but highly recommended for ESL students:

• Digital Flotsam: http://digitalflotsam.org/
  (anecdotes delivered by a retired actor and punctuated by music)
• Our Gigadial station - a great way of selecting a playlist of podcasts (or indeed any Web audio) for students: http://www.gigadial.net/public/station/15116

Other:

• for a general exploratory podcast site on all things to do with the Internet see Michael Coghlan's Podding Downunder Site - http://michaelc.podomatic.com/
• Aiden Yeh's Speech Training Class at http://aidenyeh.podomatic.com

Create Your Own Podcasts

• Podomatic - http://www.podomatic.com/

• Check the resources section at InSynch Training:
  http://www.insynctraining.com/pages/pg_publications_resources.htm
• Also see a selection of CMC resources from Webhead Maria Jordano at http://www.mariajordano.com/cmc_research/cmc.htm
• Journal of Voice Events (2003) conducted as part of Michael Coghlan's study into online voice applications: http://michaelcoghlan.net/fll/blog.htm
• Comments on synchronous v asynchronous environments:
  http://michaelcoghlan.net/fll/synch_asynch.htm
• Join the Community of Voices hosted by Michael Coghlan at http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=123245 (LearningTimes membership required) (dormant but awaiting resurrection by an enthusiast!)
• LearningTimes – http://learningtimes.org; LearningTimes is an open community for education-minded people. It houses a range of tools for free use to educators.
• Michael Coghlan's Blog for examples of audio blogging.
• Allan Carrington; Learncasting: Taking Educational Podcasting to the Next Level
• Beyond Text - a how to guide on using your voice online (New Practices 2005)

page last updated May 7, 2006