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>From: Lauren Rosen <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:41:53 +0100
>Subject: Re: #9959 Recording help
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>

Hi Joan,

I think you have received some good suggestions. We are phasing out of wimba at  
this time as well both because of the cost and the lack of support for some of  
the tools that we used the most. I can tell you what we have looked at for some  
of these changes that you may find comparable.

For Voice direct, we have used Tokbox which is actually videoconferencing but  
with out the camera it can work as a voice chat. You can choose to record it.  
It is independent so it doesn't stay with a teacher account like voice tools.  

For voice boards there is also a feature in tokbox that allows for asynchronous  
but it is a bit hard to find.
We have also tried Eyejot for asynchronous but in the last month we have had some  
trouble.

So with our trial and errors, we are turning more to the tools offered by CLEAR  
at Michigan State http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/products.php. They are free  
and relatively easy to use. They have a variety of apps so you may find that you  
can go beyond what you have been doing so you may need to change how you are doing  
your practice and assessments to use them. The greatest disadvantage to these  
is it sets everything up to really be teacher to student not between students  
as you had it. Webswami is also a nice tool for oral/video and written assessments  
but it similarly is teacher to student primarily, it's not free and they prefer  
that you install it on your own server.

I think the most comparable options to what you were using will probably be gong  
and/or anvill although I have no recent knowledge of how those tools are handled  
or the difficulties of installing/supporting them.

Good luck and I'll be interested to hear what you finally choose to do as we are  
in a similar struggle right now.
Lauren


Lauren Rosen
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University of Wisconsin
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