IS
VOICE ON LINE FOR YOU? IT'S EASY, INTERACTIVE AND COST EFFECTIVE. |
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EDUCATION
IN HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE and Re:Energise
Nursing and Midwifery Education This site was originally created for the conferences listed above but can be used as a general reference point for exploring online voice tools. |
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Welcome to this session on using your voice online. In this session I'm going to show you a number of tools that can make your teaching and learning environments more personal and more engaging for you and your students. I hope at the end of the session that you'll agree that using your voice online is easy, interactive, and cost-effective. |
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Oral Annotations of Diagrams (embedding audio)
(voice files
created with Audacity,
a free open source tool) |
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Narrated Powerpoint Presentation (example created with Presentation Pro) | |||
now for the INTERACTIVE tools..... | |||
Recording
Live Lectures
Other virtual classroom tools:
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Instant Messengers (free) Uses:
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Uses of audio blogging:
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the
latest breaking trend: PODCASTING |
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Note:
podcasts really do require broadband.
They are typically large files and it is a frustrating
experience waiting for podcasts on a dial up connection.
Text to Speech Text Aloud - a free tool that allows you to render written text into audio with robot-like voices! It creates mp3 files of the spoken text. The free robots do a remarkably good job - stilted but certainly comprehensible. The paid service (about US$30) offers you more and better voices. Free Voice Email Tools
Digital
Story Telling (DST)
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For
assistance on any of the tools and techniques mentioned on this page please
contact Michael Coghlan at michaelc@chariot.net.au |
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URL of this presentation: http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/mater/easy_voice.htm | |||
References:
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Site updated 27/5/06 |