Objective: Proofreading
Web tool: Audacity
Brief description of tool: Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Use of tool: Record students' blog writing on a podcast. Students love recording their own voices. It puts them in control. There are other recording devices that could be used but this is a free tool.
How it facilitates learning: Gives students a new technique to proofread that helps them really pay attention and hear what they have written.
Blog posts:
Additional strategies to use with students to facilitate learning and thinking:
How To:
Audacity Tutorial : How to Record and Edit Audio with Audacity from Guides and tutorials.com
Audacity and LAME for MP3 Video from You Tube.com
Record it with Audacity: Techtorial and printable version of tutorial from Education World
A Visual Guide to Podcasting from Seeitdoit.tv
(Four are provided here - choose the one that fits your learning style best. For this lesson you only need to learn the "how to record" and convert to MP3 sections)
Additional Resources