WOICES - Part 2 - Jericoacoara

It came as a great surprise to me to hear that the voice I had created in http://woices.com is one of the most popular echoes. I talked about a glacier I visited in Argentina. In fact I just wanted to try out the tool and I really enjoyed not only making it but also listening to other echoes (recordings).

So what you do is, you create a free account, select on goggle maps the location you would like to refer to, upload an image, record you audio and that´s it, you have made an echo. It offers you an embed code which you can copy to add it to your page. The tool is really interesting not only for EFL teachers but also to geography and history teachers. I can see a great potential for projects here. Check out my woices:

1st echo- PERITO MORENO - Argentina


2nd echo - JERICOACOARA - Brazil

WOICES - real listening

woices.com - where the words go via kwout

Woices is a site where people record their impressions of places they are at the moment or places they´ve been to. Unfortunately to EFL teachers, there are very few recordings in English, most of them are in Spanish but I guess as people start using it we´ll have more listening material in English. Once you like an "echo" you can get an embed code for your webpage.

How can we use this site with students?

• you can ask students to choose a place in the map, listen to a recording and then talk about it in class.
• you can ask students to write about a place they´ve been to and then recordtheir echo at WOICES.
• students then can listen to each other echoes and write about the most interesting ones.
• Any other ideas?

This is an echo I´ve found about the Galapagos Island (it´s in Spanish).



This is my very first echo about the "Perito Moreno Glacier"



Click on the ZOOM to have a better look at the picture.