hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com
I've got a great video for you today if you are interested in developing your students
speaking skills this is a complete lesson and I'll start by actually showing you an example
and then show you exactly what you can do it's using completely free tools and the idea is
that you prepare the work in the class with the students and then for homework the students just
go on to a really simple technology click on the button record themselves speaking and then
share that with the teacher you can then open up the system and listen to all the recordings
I'm working with an experimental group of teachers at the moment testing out some new ideas and this
one worked really well right from the start so I'll start by showing you an example that I've
done with my students and then I'll take you through everything and this is a lesson you
could try out in class straight away really hope you like the video and as always if you do please
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so to quickly explain this activity what I did was I did some preparation working class looking
at uh for example in this one the students had to speak about their typical day so in class we did a
listening about people talking about their typical days we also did a brainstorm on vocabulary
we also focus particularly on the use of adverbs and verbs to describe what you always do what
you sometimes do etcetera we did the preparation working class then the students for homework had
to prepare some notes and then record themselves speaking now what I also did was that I added
up my own recording first so they could always listen to my example and then follow that as a
kind of guide and it was using all completely free tools that I'll show you so let me just quickly
play you a couple of examples let's start by just very quickly listening to my example recording
so I'm using a free tool called Vocaroo really easy to use this is very easy to set up so let's
just play a few seconds so I click on here and you can listen now if I just play this button
I tend to get up around seven o'clock in the morning I normally do yoga in the morning for
about half an hour so that gives you an idea of the sort of thing that I did I did an opening
recording for them to listen to and then the students had to do their own recordings remember
they have prepared in the lesson so let's listen to one of the students so the students have handed
in their homework I can see quite a few of them already done it I'm still waiting for a couple
more let's just click on one and listen this was the last one from Renata so if I just click here
and then we can play back her recording "I wake up eight o'clock in the morning
then I go for run and it is normally half an hour run after this I make.." okay, so you get the idea
the students basically are going home and they're doing their recording after you've done the prep
work so this is almost the opposite of a flipped classroom you're kind of doing the work in the
lesson first and then getting the students to do the recordings at home obviously you
could then listen to the recordings and give them some feedback in the lesson how did I do that now
I'm going to take you through the whole process everything I did is free everything is really easy
so I'm using two free tools that I use all the time you can see here the first one is weight clip
and I'm just going to show you how to do weight click you will need to sign up it's completely
free there is no charged weight click is a free tool completely once you come on click on create
a new collection and then what I normally do is I put the title in here so I'm going to do one of my
older ones which was my best friend okay and then the nice thing to do is to add a cover picture
okay and to do that I'm going to just upload from the library and I'm going gonna just
put in people I'm sure I can find the nice picture there okay plenty of people around
um let's choose perhaps um let's have a good look at a picture let's do this one here okay
so I'm going to click on that just add that so it's a cover picture that you kind of add
and then I normally put a little bit of the instruction in here to the students yeah um record
yourself talking about your best friend now what I'm normally doing is that I'm doing
some preparation work in the class and I'm getting the students to do these recordings for homework
now remember the first thing I did was I added an example and I'm going to quickly
show you how I did that I think you're going to be amazed how simple this is
so the other tool I'm going to use is called Vocaroo okay this is lovely because it's so easy
to use vocaroo.com and I literally just click on this button so let's imagine that I just want to
do an example where I'm talking about my best friend so I'm just going to record myself yeah
my best friend well I've known him actually known him since he was about four years old um
I wasn't his closest friend when we were younger we become good friends actually much later on when
we went to high school together um the reason he's my best friend is that he is perhaps
the most impressive person I've ever met he's been an inspiration to me he's a great example
very good sportsman bloody bloody blah okay so do my recording I've done it and then all I need to
do is I can play it back and listen yeah my best friend well I've known him and then I would click
on share and I just copy the link now I need to put that into my weight clip this is super easy
to do remember all you do is click here and then add your weight clip okay and that now is done
remember to click on done when you've finished there's only really two buttons to remember when
you're working with what weight clip whenever you want to add to your weight click you just click on
edit and once you've finished adding whatever and of course you can add other things not only
links to audio recordings which is what we've done here and also just a little trick that one of my
students showed me you can actually if you click here you can actually change the title so I could
just click here and just say Russell's example I didn't even know this until one I noticed that
one of the students have done it okay so now I've got an example now the students will just need to
add their recordings and that's super easy I'm just going to click on done because I'm finished
to get other students to join the Wakelet just click on invite and copy that link and share
it with the students so that the students can log in and add their recording so let's have a
look at that now so let's imagine now that I'm a student and all I need to do is actually go onto
that link so just enter and now notice I need to put my name so let's imagine that my name is tom
I click on tom I click on add so now I've joined that weight clip and there you can see it then all
I need to do is click on edit and now I can add my recording so I click here to open it up then I
will need to go to Vocaroo very simple and simply do my recording so let's just do a quick one
my best friend is called tony I've known tony since I went to secondary school bloody bloody
blah students do their recording click on stop they can re-record if they're
happy with their recording they click on share they click on copy they come back
to the weight clip and they just paste in the weight clip because they wrote their name in
in this case um it will automatically come up the teacher will see their name but they remember
they can actually click here as well and just click on edit they can actually edit that title
if they want to do this so I think I said tom so so recording from tom okay so click on
done that is it so every student would do that now let's see what the teacher sees
one quick tip make sure that the students once they've done their recordings they click on done
okay so let's jump back and have a look at the teacher so the teach chat comes on and now he
can see that tom has done his recording uh and obviously the teacher's example's there and tom's
one is here and actually if I click on that it will open another window I can click here and
listen to tom my best friend uh that simple okay notice that when you click on the link it does
open up in another tab okay just to keep that in mind but really nice tool to use remember if
you want to edit a weight click you click on edit and once you've added whatever you want to lay you
want to add you just click on done and it comes back so two simple tools great way of getting
your students to do speaking do the prep work in class and get the students to do the recordings
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