Another Web 2.0 tool with multiple applications is Woices teaching, a free service for creating and sharing audio recordings (echoes) georeferenced, ie related a specific geographical location.
has always been to be a gap and a challenge oral production in the classroom, especially if it is to make sense in real world learning activities. Here again the internet options are very interesting, from the moment that provides a means to give presence to the productions, and even easier to formalize.
obviously is not the same as the oral ephemeral oral recorded. This latter acquired a degree of formality, and thus runs the risk of being a reflection of what is written in the same way that writing in forums and chat rooms is a reflection of what is spoken.
The initial goal of this application that we present today is to develop guidelines of sites, monuments ... but with a little imagination, can be very useful in the classroom:. The main options offered Woices are
- Place, geo, audio up to 10 minutes.
- Burn these audio directly into the digital environment or "upload" and recorded
- establish routes consistently grouped these audios.
this project developed by students from a school in Paterna, Valencia. Or this other
hearing on the Museum of Fine Arts in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Or this one, from a server:
Among