Wes Fryer Chapter 3: Audio

        When I read Wes Fryer’s chapter on audio, I initially did not think that I would find sources as intriguing as I did. The first link I clicked on was for autoboom. Autoboom is a website that has short audio clips, usually of news, with a corresponding picture and an optional comment section. The site also contains channels of organized audio clips, such as the Times, which differs from their home feed of random assorted news stories. I love this website, and would incorporate it into my classroom by finding a social issue to focus on and having students use an Audioboom clip as one of their resources. 

        Vacaroo is a simple website that allows for students to record themselves. It was very simple and very easy to use and after recording, it saves audio files easily and safely to a computer. This would be good in the classroom because unlike Audioboom, it is very straightforward, and students would not become off task or distracted because of its one purpose feature. 

        Unlike Vacaroo, is Audiopal. I do not think that I would use Audiopal in my classroom because it has a dangerous function that allows students to type whatever they want, and have transferred to an audio message. It would be great it students did use it appropriately, however, I think it would be hard to manage in a classroom setting. If I was to use this in the classroom, it would be interesting to do as a check in. At the end of a lesson, having students type and summarize their big ideas, and send them in an email to me privately, which is all possible through the website. The next day in class I could share out my favorites, while still protecting my students privacy if they so desired.

       I would enjoy incorporating audio into my classroom because I think it is a different media tool that students do not get much access to. As Wes Fryer states: “audio can be an extremely compelling format to document our lives as and our learning experiences”