Friday, January 8, 2010

Save your voice! Recording prompts and directions into students’ worksheets and writing.


Recording your voice into worksheets or to provide feedback for students' writing can have benefits for those who struggle with:

  • reading - permanent feedback can be provided for students who can't easily read your comments
  • focus and memory - students can have on-demand directions of feedback read aloud as many times as they need them
  • engagement - students often respond differently to their teacher's voice than written prompts

In order to do this, you have to add the "insert sound object" button to your tool bar.  You can use these templates to open a document with the button already positioned in the tool bar for you.


Here's a video on how to use them.

This strategy can also be applied to:



Have you recorded you voice to support student writing? How did it go?

1 comment:

  1. Just be aware there is an error in how Windows Vista and Word07 work together to do this. You will get an error message and I do not know a specific solution. Does anyone else?

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