Art Tech Task #3

The tool I decided on for this week is called Voice Record Pro and I downloaded it from the App Store on my iPhone. I recorded myself reading a childrens book, written by Jamie Lee Curtis, that is called Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day. This is an app that you can use to record yourself.

I found this tool to be particularly interesting because it is so easily accessed on your phone or iPad. Within the app you can add different notes to whatever you have recorded, export the recording in multiple different ways, and everything is set up easy to navigate through. Below I have embedded a couple pictures of the apps layout. The first picture is my "list" of recordings. I obviously just downloaded this app, therefore, I only have the one recording thus far. Next we have a picture of what the app looks like as you are recording. This shows you how long you've been recording for, where you can add notes to your recording, and your ability to complete your recording or simply pause it for a moment. The final picture is a picture of what the app looks like once you click on one of your already completed recordings. This is shows you a lot of the different exporting options.

Children are getting phones and tables earlier and earlier these days. Therefore, you could very easily leverage using this app to entice children's interest. They would be able to complete an assignment/assessment anywhere using this app. Just as well, if their email is hooked up to their phone then they are just as easily able to export it to your anywhere as well. I would most certainly use this app within my classroom. To be completely honest I probably will use this within my classroom and hope that it is as big of a hit as I think it is. I would love to use this app as a way to assess children's fluency or reading level. By this I mean that I would have then complete a reading and listen to it played back. This would be great because I could do this type of assessment listening to these recordings at home. I wouldn't have to waste time, within class, individually assessing each child. Rather I would have them complete it and then send it to me so I could listen to what they read and assess from there. Just as well, I would love to use this if the children were required to write some type of report. I would have them read their report out loud, to themselves, as a way to edit their papers. This is immensely helpful because one can catch a lot more errors in their writing by reading it out loud. Just off the top of my head there are a number of things I could see myself implementing this tool for. 

This tool could most certainly be used for the children to create their own artifact. These could use this for a number of different audio artifacts. This is not just limited to reading. I honestly do not see this app being challenging for the children at all. The only thing I would suggest is using this app for older students. By this I mean, I wouldn't use this app if my students were in first grade or younger.