10 Ways to Use Audio Recording in a Student-Centered Classroom

GotTechED Episode 37: 

In this episode, we’ll explore some of the benefits that audio recordings can bring to a student-centered classroom.  We describe 10 specific project ideas that you can bring to your classroom that involve audio recordings AND give you the edtech you’ll need to make those projects a reality.

1. General benefits of audio recording in student-centered classrooms
   1. Helps students with difficulty brainstorming
   2. “Safe” way to practice new learning/vocablulary for self-assessment – students can practice and repeat if they make a mistake.  Not possible when handwriting or performing
   3. Revising work – keep students accountable by asking them to record reading their work out loud
   4. Tone of Voice – reading a written work out loud and the listening back can help refine dramatic pauses, transitions, mood, etc.
   5. Differentiation –  Record your classroom lessons so that they are available to students after class as a powerful means to help students with learning disabilities
   6. Flipped Classroom – students learn at home by listening to podcasts, readings, dictations etc made by their teacher.  Students like to learn from their own teacher!
   
   
2. 10 Student-Centered Activities using audio recording
   1. Exit Slips – What have you learned today?
      1. Vocaroo
      2. Simple Audio Recorder
      3. Talk and Comment
      
      
   2. Picture Annotation- explaining a graph showing a reaction from a Chemistry lab
      1. Thinglink Upload to YouTube as an MP4 (audio+picture)
      2. WeVideo
      3. Google Slides
      4. Google Drawings
         1. Create a Google Slideshow and Insert a video onto a slide
         2. Set the start and stop time if you want only certain portions played by right-clicking on the video and choosing “Video options”.
         3. Now Copy the video from the Google Slideshow and paste it into any Google Drawing of your choosing.
         4. The video will play in your Google Drawing when your double-click on it.