The BaW07 (Becoming a Webhead) experience has been a great opportunity to learn about new tools for using in the language classroom. This morning, as part of the presentations in BaW07, we had a conference with Michael Coghlan. The subject was voice tools and its applications in education. It was a really interesting event. For more an hour Mr. Coghlan spoke to an enthusistic audience. While he spoke, he also carried out a very instructive powerpoint presentation on the topic. Participants were also istening to Mr. Coghlan and exchanging text messages about relevant issues concerning the topics being presented. He reviewed some voice tools that can be useful in a language classroom. One them was hipcast, which he used to record a message in his blog. He also gave us participants very sound advice in dealing with technology. One that is worth mentioning is the one of trying to use/understand just some of the tools reviewed, due to time consuming nature of this enterprise. He is absolutely right on this because it does take a great deal of effort to get familiar with a new tool. To give an example, this is my first posting on the Yahoo 360 blog host and it took me some time to decide trying it and some time figuring out how to use it and I know that I still have a long way to go. However, to quote so many moderators and interesting people I have been learning with “learning is a lifelong process” and I am up for grabs.
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