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"Within YouTube there is a free tool for creating audio slideshows. You supply the images and YouTube supplies the audio track. You can pick from thousands of audio tracks to match to your slides. After adding your slides and selecting an audio track you can add speech bubbles to your slides." "Creating an audio slideshow with annotations in YouTube is a good way for students to share the highlights of some basic research that they have conducted. " However, the audio is really just background music. I wonder if it could be adapted to adding a teacher- or student-made spoken audio track. R. Byrne

"The ability to record and edit audio is becoming easier and easier due to user-friendly technology. Most computers are sold with software preloaded that makes audio recording a snap. Here is the recipe we use for our in-house audio recording." Some very good tips for producing good audio files for your students - or for them to produce their own.

"What is Audio-Lingua ? A collaborative bank of authentic audio resources, recorded by native speakers, for a freely pedagogical or personal use. Audio documents ? Short, a maximum recording length of two minutes, on various subjects… Collaborative ? It means that any person who feels interested may contribute sending personal audio documents by filling in the form. Authentic ? For they are only made by native (English, French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish) speakers ! All accents can be useful. Aim ? To train oral comprehension for anyone who would like to improve this language skill." An interesting share-and-share-alike method of accummulating short audio files for study. You can select any of the European languages and a level for listening. Have your tudents practice and make their own recordings.

A browser-based audio editor

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.

All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available.

With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

Audio Forum that can be used as a bulletin board or audio blog. Asynchronous voice discussions can be very helpful for students' listening, speaking, and pronunciatio skills. Private channels available for $4.99/month, or free for public forums. Can include image gallery and audio guestbook.

"TwistedWave is a new audio recording and editing tool that is now included in Next Vista's list of recommended tools. Through TwistedWave you can create and edit spoken audio recordings from scratch. Your completed tracks can be exported to Google Drive and SoundCloud."

"Create online and mobile video presentations "Simply Upload PowerPoints, documents, photos or video clips "Add audio by phone, microphone or MP3" Appears to be a nice, free alternative to audio programs to enter audio files to your PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress presentations.

Online resources are a great way to individualize/personalize reading habits: "Teachers trying to motivate or teach students to read can find lots of reading resources online. This includes printable worksheets, lesson plans, reading diaries for students, reading certificates for encouragement, fun activities, audio-visual aids, and tons of other resources that teachers can use in the classroom. Some teachers like to use audio hooks - audio extracts that stop just where the story gets interesting. The teacher can then hand out copies of the book, since students are much more likely to want to read the book after hearing the hook. For students who can read on their own, it is important to have the type of books they like to read. In some classes, this may amount to a very large collection of books. It is also important to ensure that the language of the books matches the reading abilities of the students. An alternative to stocking up on a large collection of books that meet these criteria is to use e-libraries to encourage reading."

This blog describes what streaming audio involves and links to free streaming software. Useful for listening and content delivery.

A simple way to share audio clips on Twitter, Facebook, iPhone, Android, etc.

"Chirbit is a free online tool for audio sharing. Chirbit enables users to record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily. Chirbit is simple, useful and fun. You can now use iPhone Voice Memos to post to chirbit."

Viewpoint is an audio and video repository that allows you to record your audio/video online using your microphone or webcam, or upload existing media. These media items can then be linked from other sites or embedded inside your own web pages. Please note that this product has been developed for educational purposes only; these videos are not for commercial use.

"Applications for Education I encourage you to read Larry Ferlazzo's post about how he is using Clyp.it with his ELL students. In that post he explains how his students are using Clyp.it to post audio comments on a classroom blog. " T/H R. Byrne

"Applications for Education TwistedWave could be a good audio track creation and editing tool for students and teachers that are using Chromebooks. The integration with Google Drive makes it easy for students to save their works and share their recordings with their teachers. "

"ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) is a speech-based toolbox for language teachers. Like the language lab console of old, it's focused on the practice of oral/aural language, but at its core are very modern web-based audio and video tools from duber dot com and the University of Oregon: Voiceboards, LiveChat, and Quizzes and Surveys. Our newest tool, TCast, allows teachers to record and place audio or video files anywhere in a lesson--in 3 easy steps. Each of these tools really opens up the scope and sequence of lessons centered around spoken language tasks." Jeff Magoto has done a great presentation on how to use ANVILL, which is a wonderful, free, A/V tool available now internationally.

"Use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments!" This tool appears to have some of the flexibility of Audacity, but online.

"Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard." The teacher can create channels with the different master tracks (recording them yourself directly on the channel or uploading an MP3 file) for students to listen to and then record their versions, which they can edit as many times as they want.

"Shadow Puppet Edu is a free iPad app that students can use to create audio slideshow videos. The app offers an integrated search tool that students can use to find pictures from the Library of Congress, to search for images from NASA, and to find Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr. Students can also import pictures and videos from the camera roll on their iPads. " R. Byrne's blog also gives directions on how students can use this image search tool integrated with audio-slideshow.

R. Byrne discusses 5 tools used to create an audio slideshow (something between a Powerpoint presentation and a full video). Narrable, UtellStory, Present.me, Hello Slide, and Animoto, which has recently added a video clip option. Each has advantages, and Byrne's links at the bottom lead to some other alternatives and online tutorials. Let your students get creative.

"This is a listing of 82 sites that legally offer free textbooks and written course material. "There is a separate page with links to free audio and video courses Free Audio & Video Courses Online "To the best of my knowledge all of the websites listed here offer only content that they are legally entitled to transfer to you. If you find a site listed here that you know illegally offers copyrighted material, please contact me through the site with a link to the infringing content. Mr6n8 "To the best of my knowledge every website listed here, and its downloads, are safe. By the rules of this site, no website that has a red or an orange rating at Web of Trust (WOT) is allowed in the listings. I also use LinkExtend, a browser addon that offers the ratings from six other website rating products, to verify the sites here are clean. I have never encountered any issue while visiting these sites. Additionally, I have downloaded something from every site that offers a download and have never encountered an issue. If you should ever encounter malware on any of these sites, please contact me through the site and provide the link to the offending content. Mr6n8" The lists will take some time to go through: 783 sites are included, with minimal descriptions. Variety of subjects. T/H to psmiley in Group diigo in Education This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:"