Audioboo

This new technology is a free social platform for recording and uploading audio recordings. Audioboo started out as an iphone application but now it is available for anyone to use. It is a free phone application that can be shared on within Audioboo, Facebook, Twitter or any other social platform. Audioboo can be used by students to record their thoughts that could later be turned into essays or stories. Since, ELL students are suppose to be speaking 55% of the time in order to learn English proficiently this platform would allow ELL students to record their oral answers and easily send it to their teacher. Their teacher could use it for daily grammar assignments in which the student would speak the answer instead of writing it down. They could also use it to check the fluency and speed of their students reading. This would be a great tool for teachers to use with all their students. The only equipment that the student would need is an internet phone. The students could simple record their answer on their phone and then send it to their teachers Audioboo, Facebook, or Twitter account. I think that I would be able to use this tool in the regular classroom with all of my students. I have found that it is not just my ELL students that need to be taught proper grammar in order to speak English proficiently.