Twisted Wave- Simple Audio Recording & Editing

Do you ever need to record or edit audio?  Twisted Wave is an easy to use online site that allows users to record audio and then download or save to Google Drive.  Do you have an audio clip that you want to edit out sections?  This is your tool!  Upload the clip - highlight the areas you want deleted, hit delete and download your new clip.

RECORDING 

Topmarks Education

Topmarks Education -Quickly find the best teaching resources, homework help and educational websites for use in the classroom.

Soungle

Soungle - A search engine for sounds! Could be useful as a stimulus for writing.

1. Create a story, mood, setting etc through sounds from soungle etc

2. Put the sounds into a medium such as PPT.

3. Add writing or 'talk' story

4. Perform out loud!

Go to the site and start searching for sounds now!

Gabcast (An appropriate way to use cell phones)

Gabcast.com (www.gabcast.com) is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Use a touch-tone telephone to make your recordings. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.
Examples: Blogging in the Classroom
Shakespeare Passage

iSpeech

iSpeech www.ispeech.org Convert documents to audio and your web pages for free - without software, instantly!
Simply enter the URL of the web page or upload the file you want to have read and we will convert it into audio you can listen to, share, embed or download.

This site is so cool! It is great for all grades, but I think it will be extremely beneficial for struggling readers and our special needs students. You can create an account if you would like but it not necessary.
Example of an uploaded file:
Aren't We All Teachers of Literacy
http://www.ispeech.org/documents.php?mid=d5512d23f2941d52ed000d431f63e63b

Plymouth School Webpage: http://www.ispeech.org/documents.php?mid=cf53eceeb44d4df5918763a7fb6633de

***TO STOP THE AUDIO- click on the orange square.

Electronic Posters

Glogster http://www.glogster.com/edu/? is a nifty web 2.0 tool that allows you to add a little ‘glam’ to electronic posters that then can be embedded into your web page, blog, or wiki. Pick a background, drop on some shapes, add links, text, and pictures, and grab the embedding code. You don’t need to create an account to use the tool. You will want to monitor this with students as the site contains others' unfiltered glogs, but don’t shy away from adding your own glitz to your pages with Glogster.
In the education version, teachers can create accounts and they will be given student accounts names and passwords.

Example-Took about 10 minutes without any prior experience.
http://denabud.glogster.com/glog-584/

Blabberize Learning

Blabberize is a free program that lets your pictures talk. You upload a picture in which the person, or animal, is facing the camera and has their mouth closed (that gives the best results). Blabberize is a fun website that can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom! You can teach foreign language, tell a story, have children read and share their own writings, give a book talk, share learning about a unit, the options are endless. All you have to do is go to the site, sighnup for a free account and follow the step-by-step directions.

Check it out! www.blabberize.com

Examples:
I made a Blabber for You!