spoken response: test prompt, "conversations"
under review
Shannon Quinn
At first I misunderstood the test prompt thing. At first I thought it was allowing me to record a prompt that then students would be able to respond to. Now I understand that it's allowing me to test to make sure it works. You might just need something that explains that there. Including a recorded prompt might be a cool thing too. I know you can do that anyway. It gives me another idea that you might consider. There used to be this thing available through MSU called "Conversations". It was a very unique tool and there is still nothing out there quite like it. What it did was this: the teacher recorded with the webcam a set of prompts. Then students would start the conversation. The first prompt would play and then the student's mic (or webcam, I forget which it was) would immediately start recording. They would then push a button when they were done responding to that prompt and then the next prompt would come up. The recordings were then available for the teacher to grade later. It was the closest thing to a conversation simulator that was out there, and it was pretty useful. One thing I wanted for it was the ability to have prompts include more than just webcam (I wanted to have possibly other video or images or text). But it was a really cool tool and something like this could still be very useful for teachers I think.
Seth Killian
That's a good idea. I think that there's more potential that we can tap into with voice / conversations. This would be a good way to start.