Audioboo is a great tool for both learners and teachers to record and listen to themselves and others. I think this tool has a great potential for English teachers to be used in the classrooms, especially when video is incorporated in it as in Vodcasts.
Why to use it?
This tool can be used for consumption and production by teachers and learners.
• Teachers can work on their personal improvement by listening to authentic materials such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/.
• They can also set up activities for the learners as a per-sessional warm up to set the scene for a particular session or as a follow up activity.
• Teachers can record lectures for learners who had already missed the sessions as coursecasting.
• A great tool for learners to get a huge amount of exposure to authentic materials.
• A great tool for learners to reflect on the learning process.
• After making some podcasts, learners can compare their improvement in speaking skills.
• It is linked to forums such as Facebook and Twitter for other people to listen to and creates sense of audience for learners to improve their motivation.
• Lastly, it has great influence on giving feedback in a relaxed tension-free way in that teaches can only comment on common mistakes after having listened to all the podcasts.
How to use it?
Listen to this podcasts on how to use podcasts in the classroom:
• Just sign up for it and you will receive an e-mail to verify your account.
• Log in and start either recording or uploading your previously-made file from your computer.
• You can always repeat or edit your podcasts, add a picture, or even put your place on the map.
• You can join facebook and twitter to share your podcasts and listen to others.
• The most important point is to make your RSS to share your podcast with other on-line community members and listen to your favourite podcasts on the net.
• Do not forget to label your podcasts to enable search engines to find them.
You can now embed your saved podcasts to post it on your blog.
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