Students recording themselves

Students recording themselves

• Pre-intermediate• This year:• 1635 recordings!• 3.2 per student per day

• Last year:• 828 recordings

• 1.6 per student per day

• Intermediate• This year• 1121 recordings!• 2.9 per student per day

• Last year:• 620 recordings

• 1.5 per student per day

• What do they record?

• How do they record themselves?

• What can students do with their recordings?

• What can the teacher do with these recordings?

Students recording themselves

What do they record?

• Retelling stories

• Being interviewed

• Practising pronunciation

• Doing grammar and vocabulary exercises

• Reading aloud

Retelling stories

What the students listened to Carla’s re-telling

The ipadio page http://ipad.io/gCfk

Retelling stories

What the students listened to Carla’s re-telling

My feedback:Hannah stopped just in timeshe got out of the carshe looked at the manJamie got in the carthey ordered a cup of coffee

across /r/carsorry /r/nearlybar

8 minutes including recording these examples read twice

Retelling stories

Being interviewed

• Not as frequently used as re-telling• The ipadio page http://ipad.io/bDoc

Lidia G being interviewed

Practising pronunciation

The ipadio page http://ipad.io/pCRV Elisabet:

Doing grammar and vocabulary exercises

The ipadio page http://ipad.io/qCL7 Jose doing the exercise

Reading aloud

The ipadio page http://ipad.io/bDmR Dolors

• Mobile phones, or tablets (BYOD)

• Wi-Fi

• ipadio apps for Android and iPhones

How do students record themselves?

How do students record themselves?

• No SIM required, so old phones can be

recycled

• No data charges if only WIFI

• Even simple phones CAN be used, but …

How do students record themselves?

My review of ipadio on Google Play

1. Generous length for each recording

2. Easy to post (all or) selected recordings to an eportfolio on

WordPress or Blogger

3. Easy to embed manually in Edmodo, for example

4. Teachers can follow students, although this needs improving

5. Teachers (and students) can add comments, although it would be

nice if ‘new lines could be used’

How do students record themselves?

What can students do with their recordings?

• Listen to their own recordings

– Not all students do this, which makes it a bit pointless

• Re-do at home any recordings they are not happy with

– Even fewer students do this…

• Read my comments on selected recordings

• Select their best recordings for me to evaluate

• Add their best recordings to their e-portfolios

What can the teacher do with these recordings?

• Listen to some of them ( 1, or 2 a week?)– I usually select short ones like pronunciation

and reading aloud or grammar exercises

• Write comments on these using ipadio on a web page – using a phone or tablet or a computer

• Evaluate 1 recording a week selected by each student

Write comments on these ipadio recordings

Evaluate 1 recording a week selected by each student

• 1024• Listen once to the first minute of your recording and pause when you get to

each of these grammar mistakes and take some notes:

• Hannah stopped just in time• she got out of the car• she looked at the man• Jamie got in the car• they ordered a cup of coffee

• Here are some pronunciation problems. Listen to my recording and repeat the grammar mistakes and the pronunciation mistakes. There should be time to repeat them. Use your mobile to record my version and yours and then listen and compare them:

• across /r/ car sorry /r/• Nearly bar

Evaluate 1 recording a week selected by each student

• Your pronunciation was good but in all these problems you made a mistake with the letter 'r' Listen to me, and then look at the BBC pronunciation pages about /r/. Bar and car are not said with an /r/ they are /ba:/ and /ka:/ just a long /a/ and nearly doesn't have an /r/, either

• Listen again to the first minute of your recording and stop at each of these grammar and pronunciation errors above and say each word correctly.

• Very fluent, but a few grammar problems and one or two pronunciation problems to solve.

• I've just spent 8 minutes on this. Please make sure that you spend at least as much time as me trying to learn from your mistakes. If you like you can make a new recording and post it here.

• Here's the link to /r/ from BBC Learning English:http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/otherconst6

Students add their best recordings to their e-portfolios

•https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx#share

Students add their best recordings to their e-portfolios

https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx?#broadcasts

Students add their best recordings to their e-portfolios

https://tuleka.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/begin-rob-and-jennifer/

Student opinions about recording themselves

» Pre-intermediate:

• 4 people out of 7 mentioned that recording themselves had been useful.

• 3 people out of 6 said they would like to record themselves next year

• 4 out of 6 said they would like to have a class library or use the library next year

» Intermediate:

• 3 out of 4 students mentioned recording themselves as important

• 3 out of 4 mentioned listening to their recordings• All 4 students said that a class library or active use of the

library by teachers/students was very important

Pending analysis of my experiment with evaluating recordings 2014-2015

• I evaluated 169 recordings made by my students and, in theory, selected by them as their best work of the fortnight and spent on average 9.7 minutes on each one.

• Based on the statistics I gathered, a limit of 5 minutes' feedback should generate on average 6 Grammar, and 3 Pronunciation problems, which is a total of 9 problems, which is surely enough!

• I calculate that listening to just the first minute three times will probably take five minutes, particularly if I record the pronunciation myself instead of providing links to www.howjsay.com .

Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014

Pending analysis of my experiment with evaluating recordings 2014-2015

• I tested listening to just the first minute with 6 recordings and in fact, it took close to 5 minutes and I was able to give an average of 4/5 grammar points and 5/6 pronunciation points and record my pronunciation of the pronunciation points and upload the recording to Edmodo.

• As the average time I spent on feedback this year (2013-2014) was 9.7 minutes every two weeks, limiting feedback to 5 minutes next year but doing it every week will make the total amount of time I spend on feedback roughly the same, but will make it more digestible as 9 things to work on at a time will be more practical than 18 things at a time!

Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014

Pending analysis of my experiment with evaluating recordings 2014-2015

Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014