Teach with Moodle

You could look at creating audio recordings of interviews, record general or specific assignment feedback for your students to listen to, ask your students to record interactions that are relevant to your course and then upload them onto a server, for you to use in class.

This could be an interesting way to engage your students. In any case do be mindful of privacy and get consent before publishing materials.

 

What do I have to be cautious about?
1. Do not divulge any sensitive information, names, or other personal information. For that reason generic information is better for uploading onto SoundCloud or into Moodle. An audio feedback file which you upload into the Assignment area is not public however, so you may provide personal assignment feedback that way (shown in this video)
2. Here is an example of the type of consent which the interviewer should get fom the interviewed persons before publishing online: consent form

 

How to record?
Audacity is a free software which you can install on your computer to make audio recordings with. You will also need to download LAME to create MP3s from your Audacity recordings.
The links for downloading Audacity and LAME onto your computer are:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ and http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/#lamewindl

 

Make sure you select private settings in SoundCloud:

Upload into Moodle
Upload your MP3 file into your assignment area (for audio feedback). I show you how to do this in Topic 18: http://moodle.kentisd.org/mod/book/view.php?id=12805&chapterid=1262. (Alternatively you can upload an audio file exactly like a Word or Powerpoint document, using File.)

 

Embed an audio file into your module
The process is identical to video: upload your MP3 onto a server which lets you embed your file, such as Sound Cloud.

For instance record general feedback for the whole class on audacity and upload this into SoundCloud, then embed it into your module. This is the result: