This is the reflective (mostly) blog of Adam Sutcliffe, a teacher of Modern Languages at The Gordon Schools in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
All opinions expressed in this blog are entirely my own. Any complaints should be expressed directly to the author.
Monday finally sees me have my date with the neurosurgeon at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, and hopefully soon after I am going to stop hurpling around and get back to work...just in time for the Easter break with a bit of luck.
In a nice gesture one of my S2 classes made me some get well soon cards. As a retuen gesture I thought I'd return the gesture and took a picture of each card and made a slideshow with them.
I had to cringe at the "inventive" use of a dictionary to write GET WELL SOON in French. "Bon guerison" rather than "Obtenir bien bientot". Nevermind, its the thought that counts
audiko is a simple service which helps you to make a ringtone of your favorite song!
Create kids speakings (eg verb drills, or vocabulary etc) and then transform them into ringtones. I won't go as far as saying all students would find this idea a cool addition to their mobile but it could definitely have its uses.
Obviously with a service such as this there are copyright issues and students should not be encouraged to use commercially available material to upload.
Upload an audio file, and it will take you to a wave form (see below) all you have to do is slide along the wave form and find the bit of the foem you want. Easy.
Click on create ringtone and it does what it says on the button. Here's one I prepared earlier using Yanick's 5x table rap. Once your ringtone has been created you can;
download it to a computer
download it to an iPhone
copy a wap link into your mobile to download it directly
or as I've done here embed it on your blog.
I'm not sure if there's a limit on the length of clip, but 30 secs is enough time to conjugate the verb "avoir" in the present tense.
The great thing about it is THERE IS NO SIGN UP SO NO IDENTITY PROBLEMS.
How about this for a potentially superb resource for language lessons. A bright, colourful mp3 recording device, battery powered and compatible with a pc. The uses of this in an mfl classroom are endless:
have as many students doing speaking exercises as you have microphones
in group work have a microphone on each island so that everyone can do the work
strategically place the microphones all around the room when recording drills etc.
And loads more that I haven't thought of in the time its taken me to post this.
At the beginning I said it is a potentially superb resource...I wonder about the quality of recording. Most mp3 players are capable of recording voice but the actual recording quality is doubtful. I would be very interested in testing out this resource committing to buying one.
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