Beyond text: using your voice online

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Beyond text using your voice online
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1. Setting the scene

• What is the difference between spoken and written
  texts in educational contexts?
• What online voice technologies do you know
  about?
• What experiences have you had with using online
  voice technologies in an educational context?

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• Home
• Overview
• Educational mentoring
• Voice
• Role and significance
• Principles
• Overview
• Model overview
• Personalised learning
• Community participation
• Diversity
• Reflectiveness synthesis
• Practices
• Overview
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Audio/voice board
• virtual classroom
• Audio/ voice chat

• Considerations issues
• Learners
• Teachers
• Pedagogies
• Organisations
• Professional development
• Learners
• Teachers
• Pedagogies
• Organisations
• Resources
• Overview
• Beyond text
• Connecting the dots
• Social interaction packs

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2.1 Online voice tools
http//btresource.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.ht
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http//webct.netspot.com.au
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2.2 Voice boards activity

• Post responses to three voice board topics
• Listen to posting to find others in the group
  with- similar subject areas, - similar learner
  profiles or - similar ideas about using voice
  boards
• Form pairs or small groups based on the above

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2.3 Discussion

• How do you think you could use online voice
  boards - in different learning environments -
  with different learner groups?
• What benefits do you think they offer?

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3. Online voice in learning contexts
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3.1 Facilitator Guides
http//btresource.flexiblelearning.net.au/beyond_t
ext_resources/bt/guides/index.htm
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3.1 Case studies
http//btresource.flexiblelearning.net.au/beyond_t
ext_resources/bt/casestudies/index.htm
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3.2 Webquest
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3.2 Webquest answers

• Case studies, Guides
• Case study 4 Disabilities
• Case study 3 ESL
• Case study 2 Industry
• Trades Youth. As an announcement tool
• 3 minutes. Yes up to 5 minutes
• - question and answer sessions - collaborative
  problem solving activities - brainstorming
  activities
• Standard blog account (eg Blogger)Audioblog
  account (eg Audioblogger)
• The teacher has to listen to the whole message
  because there is no way to quickly scan for key
  words. Also, the teacher is unable to re-read a
  section of the work and must listen to the entire
  posting again to clarify their understanding of
  the learners posting. This process does increase
  the time required of teachers
• Yes at a cost

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3.3 Discussion

• After exploring the Guides and the Case Studies
• How do you think you could use online voice tools
  - in different learning environments - with
  different learner groups?
• What benefits do you think they offer?

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3.3 Focus topics

• Context
• Learner
• Challenges
• Benefits
• How
• Outcomes
• Tips and tricks

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4.1 Developing activities
http//btresource.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.ht
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http//webct.netspot.com.au
http//www.tafevc.com.au
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4.2 Planning activities

• Some things to consider
• areas of study
• learner profiles
• resources available
• fully online delivery?
• online in the classroom?
• challengeswhat do you need to do that online
  voice tools will enable, or allow you to do
  better?
• which online voice tool/s?

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• 4.5 Reflection
• One thing that I will/would like to incorporate
  into my teaching practice is