Comments on: Audiobooks and our changing students http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/ technology, libraries, and schools Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: craighosking http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/comment-page-1/#comment-411 craighosking Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:36:03 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/#comment-411 this is one great site for audiobooks is www.librivox.org. It is a volunteer project with readers contributing books by reading aloud books from the public domain. Your students could even volunteer to be a reader! It has poetry, short works, and novels, and many classics are there. This is a great and free tool. <a href="http://www.theaudiobookguide.com/specialOffers.aspx" rel="nofollow">audio books</a> this is one great site for audiobooks is http://www.librivox.org. It is a volunteer project with readers contributing books by reading aloud books from the public domain. Your students could even volunteer to be a reader! It has poetry, short works, and novels, and many classics are there. This is a great and free tool.
audio books

]]> By: Juve http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Juve Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:14:16 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/#comment-86 I would prefer to download my audiobooks directly into my device, like a phone, or iPod, rather than PC first then into device? I am waiting for my phones (and I know there are some that allow it) to handle downloads of my audiobooks. Why carry 3 or 4 devices with you? Here is a audiobook phone compatible list http://www.playsforsure.com/SearchResults.aspx?searchtype=GetStarted&cat=SmartPhone Not many right now. Found in http://www.booktones.com <a href="http://www.booktones.com" rel="nofollow">audiobook</a> phone compatible list I would prefer to download my audiobooks directly into my device, like a phone, or iPod, rather than PC first then into device? I am waiting for my phones (and I know there are some that allow it) to handle downloads of my audiobooks. Why carry 3 or 4 devices with you? Here is a audiobook phone compatible list http://www.playsforsure.com/SearchResults.aspx?searchtype=GetStarted&cat=SmartPhone

Not many right now. Found in http://www.booktones.com audiobook phone compatible list

]]> By: Joel Adkins http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Joel Adkins Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:08:45 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/#comment-6 I love the reading capabilities that are out there. I read today that Microsoft Vista the OS itself will have a dictation tool in it so you can talk and the computer will type for you. Wow Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 has tools in it to read documents to the audience who uses it. When I was in college, I would record audio books for the blind students at school. There just wasn't a lot of books in audio format for students with visual disability. When I went to an Adobe conference this week, someone gave me a business card from Adobe and it had the contact information in braille on the card. I knew when they handed it to me that Adobe is now onto something great. Our students should not just know how to read a book on their own, but they should know how to read it out loud to others. Podcasting was and is a way to do that. To teach students a way to deliver content without a Power Point or a visual interference. To teach them how to script and to communicate audibly to an audience. Love it all, Carolyn. Keep it up! I love the reading capabilities that are out there. I read today that Microsoft Vista the OS itself will have a dictation tool in it so you can talk and the computer will type for you.

Wow

Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 has tools in it to read documents to the audience who uses it. When I was in college, I would record audio books for the blind students at school. There just wasn’t a lot of books in audio format for students with visual disability.

When I went to an Adobe conference this week, someone gave me a business card from Adobe and it had the contact information in braille on the card. I knew when they handed it to me that Adobe is now onto something great.

Our students should not just know how to read a book on their own, but they should know how to read it out loud to others. Podcasting was and is a way to do that. To teach students a way to deliver content without a Power Point or a visual interference. To teach them how to script and to communicate audibly to an audience.

Love it all, Carolyn. Keep it up!

]]> By: Carolyn http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Carolyn Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:22:45 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/#comment-3 I know...I've learned more in two days than I can implement or show people in months! I hope next year our schedule allows for more planning days and training days! I know…I’ve learned more in two days than I can implement or show people in months!

I hope next year our schedule allows for more planning days and training days!

]]> By: Constance http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Constance Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:34:04 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/audiobooks-and-our-changing-students/#comment-2 Oh Googling Goddess of Geeks, ...now if we could just have a staff development day where we could read about, try out and brain storm w/peers on implementation strategies... Now do keep the geeky stuff coming... Oh Googling Goddess of Geeks,

…now if we could just have a staff development day where we could read about, try out and brain storm w/peers on implementation strategies…

Now do keep the geeky stuff coming…

]]>