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1. I opened Google Talk and from my list of contacts I selected one and clicked on the arrow that shows me the option of sending a voice mail

Select voicemail in G Talk

2. The message will start recording after a “Beep”. When you are done recording you click “End Call”

Record and end call

3. When you ended the call, your contact will receive the mp3 file in their gmail, in this format:

G talk mp3 file and console in email

You can send a voicemail to yourself so that you receive that file, or you can have the contact send the mp3 file back to you.

4. Download the mp3 file and you can use it directly in your course, blog or website, or you can also edit it with audacity.

This is an example:

Sample of MP3 recorded in G Talk

How can I use that in my online course site?

1. Create a welcome message for your students

2. Provide audio feedback for their assignments

3. Add audio to images, screenshots or powerpoints

4. Create podcasts with information, minilectures or comments to your class.

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Feedback is key in a teaching and learning interaction. In fully online courses, it helps to keep alive the flow of communication between the members of the virtual community (Scagnoli & Willging, 2003), and it increases the sense of “presence” of the instructor or classmates in the interaction (Ice et.al, 2007) .

Feedback usually took the form of text or talk, in face to face interaction. Now, with the easy access to more sophisticated and less costly (free!) voice recording applications, audio feedback has become more popular in teaching. Either as MP3 files or in other formats, instructors record their voices and post them on the web, in the Course Management Systems, or in sites such as iTunes, My Podcasts, Del.icio.us, so that they can reach the students with their comments. Some instructors even invite students to do the same, and post comments or their assignments using audio. This task has become more easy to perform due to better access and more flexibility in producing, storing and re-producing audio files. Educational and Social podcasting is another phenomenon that is changing the way that students and faculty interact.

One of the most widely used software applications to record and reproduce audio for the web is the so-called Audacity, a free audio recorder and editor that can be downloaded from the web, and produces immediate results that the users can publish and share.

Audacity can record, edit, reproduce, import and export sound files in different digital formats. This feature makes Audacity a very powerful piece of software.

How do you use Audacity?

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  This tutorial shows step by step how to download, install and run Audacity

• “How to… Audacity“, by Tony Hursh from CTER

How do you make sure that your podcasts reach your students?

There are several ways to publish your mp3 or other audio files to the web. Commercial (for fee or for free ) sites offer podcasting solutions or hosting for MP3 files. Or the files can be stored in your college server and the file can be streamed via a m3u file, or you may have access to iTunes or iTunes University, which will host and reproduce your audio to the class. Even Del.icio.us can be a solution to create a comprehensive list of your podcasts, (they will provide RSS feed for the site!).

How can I use audio files in my teaching?

• Give short messages to students on the topic of the week. Sometimes it is not the reproduction of the whole lecture, but a short and meaningful phrase or sentence, will become meaningful to the user and will help him understand or enhance his knowledge on a certain subject. Some faculty have found that podcasting is a great way to reach the students in the middle of the week with some information that they may need as they prepare for the next week assignment. Five minutes podcasts have proven to be enough to enhance teacher presence in an online class, or in large classes where the instructor and the student will very unlikely share a one-to-one conversation.
• Respond to students postings in a forum with audio. Instead of the usual typing a response, “voice” your comments, and let students hear you say your message to them.
• Provide extra explanations or instructions with audio comments in your CMS or in your website.

If you know about other uses or articles on the “use of audio feedback” in e- and blended-learning, please share those in the comments to this message.

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“I have everything in my favorites in my computer, I cannot remember those URL when I am using your computer”, my friend complained as we were developing a training seesion. Then I asked: “Have you tried del.icio.us, or furl?”. “What are you talking about, I am talking computers here”…”me, too” I explained.

“How would you feel about having all your bookmarks or favorite sites in an Internet bookmark, as a list of favorites that you find in any browser, in any machine connected to the Internet?” I asked…”That would be a future perfect!” my friend exclaimed. “Let me take you to that future” I said, and I “walked her through” the del.icio.us tutorials online. “I can’t wait to try this myself”, she said, and a couple of hours later my del.icio.us account was being hit several times by my friend and I was receiving new and very interesting links from her, who, (of course) is in my network.

So what is so special about del.icio.us or other social bookmarking sites?

- Reach your bookmarks from any browser, from anywhere and from any computer connected to the web (How to install buttons on your browser)

- Share bookmarks with different groups, create tags that you share with others, and build a library of web resources with your class.

- Find links from other users with common interests, you can go to the sites created by other users who also save your links and explore what sites they have bookmarked in your area of interest.

- Subscribe to topics that are important to you or subscribe to specific topics by a user ( Open instructons how)

How do you get started?

There are several tutorials that will help you get started:

• Social Bookmarking in Plain English

• Watch this short step by step tutorial to get started
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I have an ID but I only need to install the buttons

If you only need to install the buttons in your browser, follow this link: INSTALL BUTTONS, remember that you may need to close your browser after the installation, and when you re open it you will see the buttons.

How can my teaching and professional performance benefit from the use of del.icio.us

• Research – Keep track of all online resources that you use in your writings, or if you are researching an industry, or if you need to store all links to all information about a particular topic in one place.
• Podcast – Post your podcasts or listen to other member’s podcastas. Start posting your mp3 files to del.icio.us and del.icio.us will create an RSS feed for you.
• Reference log or library list Create a library list for your class with notes that explain what each article is about, or providing instructions to activities for each reading.
• Collaboration – Friends, coworkers, and other groups can use a shared account, special tag, or their del.icio.us networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant — and useful — to the entire group.
• Vacation – Save links to hotels, activities, and transportation and use meaningful tags to find your links online. Share with friends and family adding “for:username” tag when you save your tags.
• Cookbook – Save the favorites recipes to del.icio.us. Use meaningful tags, and you will easily find that recipe when you are looking for it.

Other ways to integrate del.icio.us to your website and other uses:

If you want to explore other uses of del.icio.us and how to integrate that into your class website or other sites, go to http://delicious.com/settings/