Voice Board
Voice Boards are essentially audio-enabled Discussion Boards. Like ordinary discussion boards, they allow users to use text to make their posts. However, they also allow users to leave verbal messages. These are invaluable in a language learning context, though they have uses across other curriculum areas too.
Voice Boards have the following features:
- Comprehensive message settings (forward posts, threaded or by date, private, etc)
- Set desired audio quality
- Access control (Public, logged and restricted access)
- User control (by user account or group)
- Publish (by link or by auto-generated HTML code)
- Customisable HTML code to allow embedding in your own content
- Set record time
- Threading options
- Private reply options
Demonstration:
Exercise - Create a Voice Board applet
- Review some of the samples above.
- Plan a situation for using such a Voice Tool in your own course
- Draft out the text to accompany such an activity
- Decide how you will deploy the Voice Tool (link, code in a web page, etc)
- Build it!
