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Using Google Voice to assess student learning
Posted on January 4th, 2013
About a month ago I attended a BER workshop about using mobile tech to enhance student learning. One thing I walked away from this training with is the idea of having students respond using video/audio instead of writing.
An aside: I can hear my English Dept peers already crabbing that we need to have students do more writing rather than less. My anticipated response will be: They do more writing in my classroom than they do math in yours.
I’ve tried this and have had some success but smartphone access is still a problem for some students. Others are using a data plan that adds charges for data uploads. (so they tell me).
I found that Google Voice allows me to set up a voice mailbox and it transcribes most messages.
I’m trying it out to see how it works.
I’ll follow up with a later post.