I’m trying out this new service called, Dial2Do. It’s like Jott and Reqall. But it is all free for now, at least.
You call a number, speak your message, and it gets transcribed for you and sent out to where you requested it to go. The recipient gets a transcribed message, along with a link to the actually voice message in case they need to listen to it due to a faulty transcribe or something.
You can e-mail people via your voice, send a text or even add to your Google Calendar. There are other things you can do too, like post to Twitter and WordPress and much more
When you call Dial2Do, a female voice asks what you want done. This female voice is not as smooth and grand as Jott’s is. Jott has a much better female voice greeter. But Jott costs money!
So far, the transcribing has been quick (minutes) and accurate. Although, it did spell my last name as “Marcus” instead of “Marcos”. But you can also spell out words for it if you want.
Here’s an image from their site. You’ll need to go there to watch the video since I couldn’t find an easy way to link that via my iPhone. Tell me if you try this product. I wonder how well it works.
Here is our first official, student-created mathcast from 2007. It is the early version,which is not edited too much. It is a bit longer than most of our math videos.
However, 6th grader “Bob” (not her real name) created this on the spot, with no script and no rehearsal. It was also her FIRST time ever using Camtasia Studio. Camtasia Studio is the screen recording software we use. I thought we should release this as an episode.
Lois Smethurst, an educator from Australia, wrote the story below. See 2 video clips & a little blurb about the “Kids Teaching Kids/Mathtrain” presentation I did at the NECC Conference in Washington, DC.
I was invited to present in the TechSmith booth. It was an amazing experience. Yeah, I know. I spoke way too fast. But hey, I was excited!
Thanks to @loisath New blog post: The Mathtrain @ NECC09 http://bit.ly/tXm09
Jen, Eric, Lois at NECC09
Use this link to read the story if the above one does not work:
Congratulations goes out to one of our favorite Australian techies, Darrel Branson (aka, the ICTGuy and of EdTechCrew.net fame). He was mentioned in the Washington Post, PC World and MacWorld regarding his Scratch resources!
I composed the music from putting together numerous generic loops in Garageband.
I need to take a survey soon and find which file type is preferred by you. Here is one specifically for the iPhone and iPod. Let me know if this version is better, or not necessary since the other mp4 files can easily be converted in iTunes. Thanks.
Source:Lemay, Laura (1998). SAMS teach yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 days. Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. By the way, a great resource on Web Literacy can be found in Alan November’s book, “Web Literacy for Educators”: November, A., (2008). Web Literacy for Educators. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press. Or check out Novemberlearning.com.
