My iPod and its Voice Recorder in My Classroom

Posted on April 22, 2008
Filed under Mobile Learning & Technologies, iPods and tagged ipod, mobiletechnologies, teachertube, videos, voicerecorder

Here are two short videos that I made yesterday (recorded with a digital camera) that show how I use my iPod with its voice recorder in my class as a tool for recording students spoken work. Well, I really should say how my students use my iPod with its recorder, because even though I changed the display language to Chinese, they still want to get their hands all over it.

The voice recorder I bought to go with the iPod is an XtremeMac Micromemo for around $60.

This first one is me giving a brief explanation of how it works:

and this second one is of one of my students using it to record himself saying ‘My name is…’ in Chinese.

The great thing is that once the students have completed their recordings, I have it on my iPod and can listen to it later (or on the spot with the built in speaker) and quickly put the recordings onto my computer without having to save it to the right network drive and having trouble with saving. All that can be dealt with after class, making it a really easy and tidy way to grab a recording quickly in class.

My trusty iPod and its fabulous accessory which has quickly become one of my favourites as a language teacher, also accompanies me each Friday lunch time as I head out on yard duty to ask the kids the Friday Vox Pop question of the week.

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