mailVU
What is this?
- MailVU is a website that allows you to make a video recording of yourself using your webcam and send it to anyone.
- It provides fast and easy recorded video mail to a specific person or a group of people. There is no need for the sender and the recipient to be online at the same time.
- There are only three easy steps for students to use this tool: click, record, send.
Why is the content good for language learning?
- Second or foreign language learners can record themselves and check their speaking ability.
- Students can get a chance to watch their teacher's video to revise their wrong pronunciation.
How might you use it to foster language learning?
1. Use this tool for speaking homework- Get the students to describe their holidays or typical day
- Get them to talk about their family, friends
- Let them introduce their house, school, town or country
- If there's any reading homework, get the students to read the text after finishing it
- Get them to say difficult words to pronounce from the homework
- Let them summarize the story briefly if there's any story reading homework
- Help the students with right pronunciation from their homework recording
- Give some comments or advice to the students about their speaking preparation
- Show the students any good model for their project or homework if necessary
- Limited recording time: for 10 minutes
- Webcam and microphone are needed
* If you want to record only your voice, then you can try 'Vocaroo'. The features are similar to 'mailVU'. When I was teaching Korean to Warwick university students, I recorded myself reading Korean words and dialogues by using this web tool, Vocaroo and send the recording to the students via email. I thought it was really useful for students to review what they learned.
Vocaroo
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