1. + Step-by-step Instruction on How to Use Voxopop.com A Free Voice-Recording Tool to Get Students Speaking Presented by Anne Cappiello, Nicole Elenz-Martin, and Michael Silva

2. + Let’s first look at Voxopop in action! Level: Spanish 4APhttp://www.voxopop.com/http://www.voxopop.com/ Topic: Celebrating Earth Day and the organizations that work to protect our planet. Objectives: To inform radio listeners about an organization that has worked to protect the environment in Latin America or Spain and justify why their work is worth celebrating. To synthesize and interpret information from authentic sources ROLEAUDIENCEFORMATTOPIC + Strong Verb Journalist from the BBC World News or United Nations Radio (or another group of your choice) Listeners of a popular radio program on the environment (ej. The Environminute) Radio broadcast of two minutes— like a podcast Inform listeners of an organization that has worked to protect the environment in Latin America or Spain and justify why it’s worth celebrating their work.

3. + How many of you… take your students to a computer lab? have access to a class set of headsets with microphones and USB cables? record your students’ speech samples electronically/digitally regularly?

4. + Ideas for using VOXOPOP Set up talk group for whole class and the entire class can hear each other’s recordings. Set up individual student accounts so that only the recordings of that student are in one place and the teacher can respond to that particular student privately.

5. + Ideas for using VOXOPOP Have students listen to speech samples of other students and then record their comments/observations. Have students start the topic of discussion. Record listening comprehension sections for exams. Pronunciation practice Anything else?

6. + Step 1 Go to www.voxopop.com

7. + Step 2 Click on sign up in order to join or make a talkgroup

8. + Step 3 Fill in the information. Then click on “I agree, sign me up!”

9. + Step 4 Click on explore

10. + Step 5 Start a Talkgroup of your own

11. + Step 6 You can start a Talkgroup. Fill out the information:

12. + Step 7 Click on Create my talk group

13. + Step 8 Invite others to join Or start a new discussion

14. + Step 9 Put down the information in order to invite others, and then add the students’ email addresses. You may only send 20 emails at a time. Then send out the invitation

15. + Step 10 Write a title for your discussion. Record the starting discussion as a prompt. And you can add message options and key words. Then you can either save or cancel the discussion

16. + Step 11 After your recording, you may go back to the talk group to verify that your recording is there. Or you may explore other discussions and talkgroups

17. + Example of the page with all the talkgroups that I participate in.

18. + Example of a Talkgroup with list of discussions

19. + Example of a discussion page with teacher prompt at beginning and class’s responses.

20. + Example of a talkgroup page with students’ individual discussions.

21. + Example of student’s recordings all on one discussion.

22. + Step 12 Once people have participated on the discussion, you can download it to iTunes and onto your iPod for convenience. Do you like the Ocean?

23. + Step 13 1. Click on icon for iTunes 2. Choose an application—iTunes 3. Click iTunes.app and OK 4. Go into your iTunes library and look under podcasts. The recordings should be there. Downloading it to iTunes

24. + The iTunes page will look like this:

25. + Give it a try! PPT with notes for teachers and student handouts on how to set up and record are available at… public.me.com/mikesilva password: chilechile