Wetoku

On-Line Conferencing & VLE:

Just another amazing tool by Russell Stannard. You can now give Live Lectures to students and Chat on line by using Wetuku.com. Teachers can record their lectures; give after-class feedback, record homework, and maybe online tasks. On the other hand, students can make the use of the best
audio-visual quality while interacting with their teachers and benefit from
paralinguistic features that don’t exist in other Virtual Learning
Environments, VLEs.  You can then share your broadcast on Facebook &Twitter. Watch this video of me and Russell stannard:

How to use it:

      · First create an account.

·  Then, click on Showtime and create your online room.

·   Type your name and the other persons’ names and start
your online lectures.

·      You can then grab the special URL or the embedding link
and paste on your website, browser, or just email it to your friends and
students

Another use is that learners can record themselves, too to have an online forum with their
friends practicing and doing tasks and homework. The most salient feature of
this tool is that users can use the recording in two ways:

·     They can Copy and Paste any recording or Broadcasting
they make.

·       Teachers can grab the HTML for each of these
recordings and EMBED it in their Blogs or websites for learners to use.

·       This tool extends the physical boundaries of typical
classrooms to the Virtual space that increases learners’ autonomy and
motivation.

·      When learners see their teachers and interact with
them by exploiting gestures, smiles, and face expressions, they can learn
paralinguistic features.

·     It will also increase their sensitivity of the audience
who are watching them in addition to careful choice of language and speech
features like prosody, intonation, connected speech.

·    It is a great
tool for reflection for students to look back and improve their mistakes and
observe their progress and performance.

All users have to do is create an account and start broadcasting, copying and pasting,
and embedding their own videos by naming their own virual room as well as the guests as you can see below.