Vocaroo is just about everybody’s favorite audio recording service for using with students. It’s a super easy way for to record a message — of any length — and then place a link or an embed code on a student or teacher website. It’s the most simple ways for audio recording out there — no registration is required and you just click “record.”
Today, they announced that they will only keep recordings for six months — after that time they will be deleted (though you can download them to your own computer)
There are actually plenty of usable alternatives on The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English. All are very easy to use, but all require registration, and none are quite as simple as Vocaroo.
An Edublogs Pro blog ($40 a year) that allows audio comments is probably the closest equivalent that’s out there, I think. Is there another site out there that I’m missing?
Larry,
I got the same email. Yes, unfortunately so many good intentioned sites go down the drain because of the “money pit” that additional services dig for them. This is true. Education in our society doesn’t get a pass and even more, is asked to pay more – as if education is a sign on your back that you have a giant bank roll…. enough about that.
Evoca is a very cheap alternative that I’ll vouch for. Lots of embeddable and voice mail options too. I’ve used its drop box for students for the past 2 years. I’ll also say that voxopop is a very good alternative. You can actually get the url of the voice file and just link. Tricky but can be done…
Let’s keep audio alive. It is much better than video for language instruction. Voicethread, I really don’t need to mention – is the “go to” site for this, IMHO.
Cheers,
David
larry,
Do you know of any vocaroo alternatives
Rosy