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Vocaroo recording: Hello Cluster 5 Orange County BTSA Induction
Leaders: You requested opportunities to learn some
Web 2.0 tools. I thought a great way to begin would be to see a tool in ACTION!! It is called
Vocaroo!!! Vocaroo is a voice recording tool. Easy to use! Fun!
And easy to learn! Are you ready?
Vocaroo Screencast by Marsha Buckley-Boyle
Thank you to Dr. Emil Ahangarzadeh of SDCOE for creating a screen cast for Vocaroo-for
one of his Web Tool Wednesday's. I not only could begin to use the tool, but I also am
using his format, some slides and concepts to present the tool to my colleagues. Thank
you Emil!
Vocaroo addresses Common Core Standards for both Speaking and Listening. Two areas, which
in the past were often neglected or disproportionately addressed.
• Speaking and listening skills are critical in today's world for multiple career paths.
In the classroom opportunities for Speaking an Listening can be used for: Demonstrating
subject area content mastery-such as providing the rationale and steps for solving an equation
• Creativity-speaking opens the door for those learners which need a creative outlet
to make sense of their learnings • Collaboration-one of the C's in Common
Core- working in groups, Think Tanks, teams provide opportunities to use these skills
• Practice formal oral skills through presenting/sharing/explaining again provides the arena to strengthen these
skill areas
How do we do we meet all of thee standards? Well one way is to provide opportunities for
audio recordings
So are you ready to try it? Go to www.vocaroo.com I will give you a minute to do so
Click on the upper right hand corner for a Full Screen
You will be able to record-pause-re play-listen and save. Once you save you may save the embed
code or you may email or text the link. The receiver of the text/email will click on the
link and Wa La They will hear your message with your voice! Pretty fun right? Let's give
it a try. You should see two green rectangles in the
center of the page. You should see two green rectangles in the middle of the page. Click
on To Record
It asks for permission to allow it it to connect. So I Click on "Allow"
And you see it is blinking You could start recording now I am not quite ready So I stopped
Now what I am going to do is I am going to press the retry button and start a new recording.
Ready?
"Hello Everyone. I am learning how to use Vocaroo It's fun and easy!" Now I am clicking
to stop. I can listen "Hello Everyone. I am learning how to use Vocaroo It's fun and easy!"
Now I press pause I can retry "Hello everyone This is Marsha I hope you are having fun!"
I could listen again. I could retry. Or I could click here. I am happy with this recording.
This time I am actually happy. I am going to press save. And what I received-what I
received are two options: an embed code or an email address. I may copy and out this
in an email or a text or I may take the embed code and embed it. Once I do that, my receiver
will be able to click on it and listen to the message.
Now you try!
I hope you've been successful Start emailing me some of your samples and we can share with
one another.
Take some time, at your site or in your small groups to Brainstorm. Think of uses for the
classroom as well as for your BTSA Induction Programs.
Please think of more and share in our Edmodo Site.
Thank you for listening and participating.