A year or so ago Michelle blogged about alternatives to gcast. One of the websites that she mentioned was yodio.com/. Since then, I have had the opportunity to work with the site a little bit. It is an easy, quick, and free way to create slideshows that include not only your pictures, but your voice. It combines podcasting and digital photography.
I have had teachers make a yodio of their autistic students that was used to provide information about that student to staff members. Another teacher is using yodio to showcase her student’s alliteration book. After each child creates their image and sentence, they are recording themselves reading their page. Yet another teacher has used yodio as a way for students to narrate how to solve a math problem. This example is available below:
Teachers can use yodio as a way to track student’s ability to read a piece of text – another fluency check. It can be a great way to showcase a students development not only for yourself, but for students and parents.
A note: if you add your phone number from school and that number doesn’t show up on a caller I.D., then it won’t automatically tie into your account. There is a way to add a password when you use that number so that you can access that podcast on your account.
For ease of use, this is a great way for students to begin creating personalized products.
2 responses to “Yodio”
Jennifer Conkel
June 25th, 2012 at 12:20
Thank you for the information on Yodio! I am currently taking courses to become certified in TESOL, and will certainly record the information in your blog to use once I am teaching. I can think of a lot of ways Yodio could be used with ELL students. I’ll continue to follow your blogs.
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November 6th, 2011 at 06:33
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