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Giving students feedback on work by audio rather than text.  Blog post with some useful links to current audio feedback projects.

The vision for the Steeple project is to investigate, develop and document sustainable institutional infrastructure to support university wide educational podcasting. Steeple also hopes to instigate a viable community around scalable, enterprise-level solutions suitable for the UK-HE sector in the areas of automated video/audio capture, video/audio processing, and video/audio delivery ("podcasting").

"Adding audio instructions or commentary helps you meet the needs of auditory learners, and often adds interest to the content. Schiefelbein said she often creates an audio recording of housekeeping tasks, such as deadline reminders, as well as to review what was covered the previous session. She also uses the Wimba Voice Board to create an audio-based discussion board which students use to discuss topics and reply to posts."

Rationale, pedagogy and links for using audio in HE. Note elements of intimacy, reducing transactional distances.

Terry Anderson gets annoyed with some poor research on audio feedback.

"Today I want to share some free or inexpensive ways to work with the audio in your elearning courses."

"Let's now take a closer look at each of the key components that comprise the [Community of Inquiry] COI and then explore the use of audio feedback to promote teaching presence."

Audio of a UK workshop held around issues of sustainability (i.e. without project funding) in releasing OERs.

"There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources."

Long post about experience of using audio feedback on student work.  Uses Wimba Voice Tools to record and distribute the feedback.

"AbstractWe present a case study to evaluate the use of a Wimba Voice Board to support asynchronous audio discussion. We discuss the learning strategy and pedagogic rationale when a Voice Board was implemented within an MA module for language learners, enabling students to create learning objects and facilitating peer-to-peer learning. Previously students studying the module had communicated using text-based synchronous and asynchronous discussion only. A common criticism of text-based media is the lack of non-verbal communication. Audio communication is a richer medium where use of pitch, tone, emphasis and inflection can increase personalisation and prevent misinterpretation."

real-time audio and video with a shared desktop - not a fully-featured virtual classroom but good quality audio and video, can have multiple video participants

"ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live.  Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're doing - ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms"

Upload record or link audio files

Convert YouTube to MP3 if you need the audio only

Stephen Downes on the purpose of learning and what constitutes success. Video, audio & slides.

"Just click the button above to start recording. We will give you an mp3 you can save, and a link you can share with anyone. "