Give your online classes a voice!
Perfect for language learning and creating vocal exercises in any subject, our web-based voice tools facilitate and promote vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment. Increase the interaction and student engagement level of any online class by allowing faculty and students to easily embed vocal interactions into the page level of their CMS.
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Reaching beyond the traditional language laboratory environment,
our voice tools support traditional communicative styles of language learning,
giving students multiple methods of speaking, writing, and listening to foreign
languages - all online. Humanize and personalize your online courses by using
threaded voice boards, voice-enabled email, embedded voice within course
pages, and live group discussions and debates.
>> Benefits
>> Features
Benefits
Offer live discussions between
students and teachers, anytime, anywhere
Teach foreign languages by
emphasizing speaking and listening
Encourage on-going
discussions and debates about different subjects and ideas
Easily teach pronunciation,
rhythm, stress, and emphasis
Students learn all
aspects of a language through listening, speaking, and writing
exercises
Seamlessly integrate
within Blackboard and WebCT - no new interfaces to configure or
commands to learn
Instant anytime, anywhere
access to language resources as students are no longer constrained
by the availability of a physical language lab and/or instructors
Features
Live Conversation
and/or Voice Coaching
Practice a language by actually speaking it with someone. This real-time
voice conferencing feature allows for live oral language instruction, small
group role-plays, and other live, conversation-based tasks. Additionally,
instructors can conduct lectures, conferences, discussions and debates, keep
virtual office hours for conversations with students, and even record discussions
for future playback.
Threaded Voice Boards
Speak and read a language at the same time, or simply create threaded voice
discussions about any subject. Great for brainstorming and collaborating
on almost any topic in any language, instructors and students can post
vocal messages with accompanying text into our voice-based message boards.
Discuss multiple subjects at once by dividing new topics into their own
threads. This is one of the best ways to practice all aspects of a new
language.
Embedded Voice within
Course Pages
Easily add listening exercises and voice messages into any CMS course page.
Our Wimba Voice incorporate a small recorder and playback feature that can
be placed within any CMS page allowing instructors to verbally explain complex
ideas, post assignments, or simply highlight important ideas that will be
discussed in upcoming lessons.
Voice-Enabled E-Mail
Students and instructors can send vocal email messages to anyone, and recipients
simply reply by sending their own voice email. Voice emails are particularly
useful for role-playing activities and question and answer sessions.
And to ensure security, instructors have full control of the distribution
of every email.
Integrate into your Course Management System
Our voice tools integrate with course management systems so they have the
same look and feel as other tools, significantly reducing barriers of
adoption and minimizing learning curves. Our vocal tools appear within
your CMS like any other resource; if you know how to use your CMS, you
already know how to use Wimba Voice.
Oral Assessments
Assess your students 24/7. Enable language instructors to build a wide
range of test questions types, such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank,
pairing, voice dialogue, vocal multiple-choice, or vocal pairing multiple-choice.
These questions can be associated with a variety of oral, visual, and
text-based prompts, requiring oral and text-based responses. Learners
simply log into the system and proceed through the test questions, recording
their responses as they use Wimba Voice.
- Wimba Voice are offered as either an annual or perpetual server license,
and are deployed as either an outsourced ASP (we host the server for you)
or standalone basis (the server resides on your network).
- Inquire within about pricing.
