ICT into the class (part I)

The traditional English Literature class make students 

feel bored and insipid and all students don’t enjoy literature. 
To solve the above problems, teachers should design 
diversity of teaching and learning activities in class.

So during this course we have been taught how to plan

and organize activities that will encourage a love for books

and the written word.

This course was full of ideas about how and why we might

use ITCs in and beyond the classroom, in order to inspire

students to work creatively and to acquire a taste for literature.
We have been taught about tools that let you create audio
recordings. We have been exploring SoundCloud to record
and save audio recordings and Vocaroo which allows you to
record your voice as well.

SoundCloud lets you save all your recordings into a dashboard
so that you can access them at anytime. You must create an
account to use SoundCloud.

Vocaroo lets you record and get the sound immediately to
embed into your publishing tool, like a blog or wiki. You do
not need to create an account to use Vocaroo.

For me, they could be a really powerful English teaching 
platforms where you could get students recording readings 
of texts, poems, and then annotate and identify or comment 
on language techniques or practice and feedback on delivery 
of speech. They could be used as: Co-constructing an audio 
book, recording instructions, add a widget to your Moodle/Edmodo
page for easy access, to record students’ oral presentations...

So, my pre-activity would be:
1.- Listen to the beginning of this story recorded in Vocaroo and try
to guess what the story is about. We could also use it with a famous 
sentence or with some lines of a story in order to recognize the story 
that students have been taught during the course.


Another possibility, would be as a post-reading activity:
1.- Students read a story or a text at home, for example, and afterwards 
they should record their voice, in Vocaroo or SoundCloud, explaining a brief 
summary of what they have understood of the story and embed into my blog.

Using them, I can hear to my students and assess students pronunciation,
intonation, and their discourse structures. Then I can give individual
students feedback via voice messages.