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 * An easy way to capture speech samples of your students is to use a tool called GABCAST. You can assign the homework of calling a local phone number and completing a task such as sharing an opinion, answering a question or giving a short description or narrative on an assigned topic. This is immediately converted to an audio file on the GABCAST website in your "channel" and available for you to create a listening task around in your next labtime. The task could focus on the content of the messages for discussion or a listening task or you could review some feature of speech that you want to raise awareness of such as pronunciation of phonemes, stress or intonation. The link below will take you to a channel that I set up and you can use to try out this tool.


 * Voicethread - another way to capture audio - teacher created prompt such as an image, text or video can be viewed and then multiple viewers can add their voice to the discussion by recording a message by telephone or microphone or add text by typing a response. Alternatively, ask students to create a presentation using one or multiple voicethread slides and providing a narration for them. This allows others to view and listen and then add their own comments/responses. VoiceThread