Voxpop

I want to share with you the Voxopop tool, a voiced-based e-learning tool that enables users to record their speaking for others to listen and to respond. Students and teachers can build discussions about any topic through audio, thus, it helps students develop their speaking skills through fun talk groups.
All the 2.0tools I haves seen are very interesting for teaching language trough technology, but I have focus my attention on Voxopop because I think is the one who deals with student’s pronunciation, something essential in a language acquisition. This toll allows for real communicative speaking and listening practice outside and inside the class. In this way, the teachers get a great amount of examples of student’s speaking that you can listen to assess any pronunciation problems and to record and assess their progress as their speaking develops.

In the link below, it is explained how to use Voxopop in class, the procedure to get an account and to start recording speech data. It also contains some usages from this tool in class, which I am going to mention because Voxopop not only is used for working on pronunciation; it is an interactive way of using the language orally. There are five basic activities we can develop with students using Voxopop:


• Discussion points - You can record a series of contentious statements and ask
Student’s to respond to each one.
• Narrative building - You can record the first sentence of a narrative and then listen to the thread and add a sentence each to the story.
• Dictations - You could record your own online dictation texts. Get the students to listen to the text, and write down what they hear and then record their own version of the text for you and other students to listen to.
• Pronunciation drills - Record some pronunciation drills and get students to listen
to them and then record themselves saying the words or sentences.
• True false statements - Record some statements about yourself and get students
to leave questions for you to find out which of the statements are true. You can
leave your answers to the questions online too. You could allow students a week to
leave questions for you to answer, then in class you can get them to tell you which
statements are true or false. You could also get students to create their own true
false statements and question each other about them.

The link I provide includes also many other 2.0 tools examples very interesting that could be useful for you. I hope they help you.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19576895/Web-20-Tools-for-Teachers