{"id":2165,"date":"2010-03-23T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T00:11:45","slug":"fotobabble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"Fotobabble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What it is:<\/span> Fotobabble<\/a> seems to be everywhere I am lately, and now that I have had a minute to play with it, I can see why.\u00a0 Just upload a photo, record your voice, and send or embed away.\u00a0 It is very simple to use and has really fun results!\u00a0 The only downside for use in education are: 1. on the home page of Fotobabble<\/a> you can see other members creations, at the time of writing they are all clean but I would hate to send my kids here without knowing exactly what content they would run into; 2. To use Fotobabble<\/a> as a student, you must first sign up. This requires an email address \ud83d\ude41 Which means that under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, that children under the age of 13 cannot sign up for an account on the site for their own creations.\u00a0 I would love to see Fotobabble<\/a> create an education version that can be used by students under 13 if monitored and signed up by an adult, and without the other user generated content on the home page.\u00a0 That being said, Fotobabble <\/a>is a fantastic tool for the classroom. <\/span><\/p>\n

How to integrate Fotobabble<\/a> into the classroom:<\/span> Fotobabble<\/a> can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom.\u00a0 For students over 13, it is a great creation tool.\u00a0 Students could take pictures, or find creative commons images that illustrate vocabulary that they are learning and record themselves saying the definition and using the word in a sentence.\u00a0 Students could collect and trade Fotobabble<\/a> vocabulary with other students in the class and embed them in a blog or wiki to create their own visual talking dictionary.\u00a0 If you teach students younger than 13, have teachers or parent helpers build audio visual dictionaries that can be added to throughout the year.\u00a0 How neat would it be to have a talking, visual word wall?!\u00a0 This would be helpful for math, science, social studies, history, and regular vocabulary words that students learn.\u00a0 The format will be so valuable to your audio and visual learners.\u00a0 Did you take pictures of that field trip? Upload them to Fotobabble<\/a> and students can record thoughts, observations, and lessons they learned on the field trip.\u00a0 Consider creating a class Fotobabble<\/a> account that you (the teacher) are in charge of.\u00a0 Upload student illustrations and record a story that they have written using their own voice.\u00a0 This is the perfect type of project to share at parent teacher conference time.\u00a0 Parents can get a good idea of their child’s writing, reading, and fine motor skills all in one spot.\u00a0 If you complete a similar project several times through the year, both students and parents can see the growth and progress that has been made during the school year.\u00a0 Fotobabbles<\/a> are an outstanding way to send your young students on an Internet scavenger hunt.\u00a0 Along the way, record directions with Fotobabble<\/a> and embed on your class website, wiki, or blog.\u00a0 Non-readers will be able to listen to, and follow directions for any assignment. \u00a0 Upload a picture of a landmark or map and have students record fun facts that they have learned about the place.\u00a0 Send special messages from your class home to parents in the weekly newsletter.\u00a0 Take a picture of a project that the class has done, or of a fun activity from the week.\u00a0 Students can record a message about upcoming events, fun highlights of the week in learning, and a list of helpers who have signed up for the week.\u00a0 Parents will love hearing their kids give the news updates for the week!\u00a0 Are you wracking your brain for a fun Mother’s\/Father’s day activity?\u00a0 Why not record the kids leaving a special message to their parent with a special picture made just for them? Now that is a keepsake! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Tips:<\/span> Because younger students can’t sign up for their own Fotobabble<\/a> account, consider creating a class account that you can be in control of.\u00a0 For younger students, having a Fotobabble<\/a> recording center set up on one of the classroom computers might be appropriate.\u00a0 Since you will control the account, you will be in charge of what content is added by students.
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Please leave a comment and share how you are using Fotobabble in your classroom.<\/strong><\/span>
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What it is: Fotobabble seems to be everywhere I am lately, and now that I have had a minute to play with it, I can see why.\u00a0 Just upload a photo, record your voice, and send or embed away.\u00a0 It is very simple to use and has really fun results!\u00a0 The only downside for use…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,135,4,31,197,10,7,12,8,14,67,590,6],"tags":[101,2176,501,2178,223,2172,4716,2175,193,37,2177,2174,210,32,4703,4705,118,2173,829,105],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games","category-history","category-language-arts","category-math","category-middlehigh-school","category-phonics","category-primary-elementary","category-science","category-secondary-elementary","category-social-studies","category-teacher-resources","category-web-tools","category-websites","tag-audio","tag-audio-directions","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-fathers-day","tag-field-trips","tag-fotobabble","tag-history","tag-internet-scavernger-hunt","tag-learning","tag-literacy","tag-mothers-day","tag-newsletters","tag-photos","tag-reading","tag-science","tag-social-studies","tag-story","tag-talking","tag-visual","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}