Potential of SoundCloud

  M04RTY PRODUCTIONS
MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez

English Teacher

Sound Cloud

March 23rd, 2019

Created by Raúl Mora Rodríguez using fotor.com

Introduction

      Technology has always played a very important role in education, the implementation of the technology has always been presented in the classrooms since years ago but sometimes with some relevant and small changes, but it is nowadays in the twenty-first century that the technology has taken more importance and relevance worldwide, it is possible to find technology in every single place on earth.

      In every single aspect of human life technology has been always presented and in education it is not the exception, the constant use of technology has always been presented in the classrooms but with some small additions for example when the English teacher used to play tapes in the Stereos with Cassettes besides the VHS players and the Big Square TVs that most of the time were in the classrooms back in the old days. Since the technology was introduced in the classrooms it only has changed through the years just like any other field of the human being, for example, science, health, and transportation.

      Nowadays we have classrooms that are one hundred percent prepared to impart classes completely digital with a lot of resources that will help the students to learn in a more interactive way. But it does not matter how much access to technology do we have every single day in our classrooms the teacher it is going to play a very important role

The potential behind SoundCloud

Sound Cloud is a webpage in which the user can upload and share different types of audio materials. This type of audio materials can be personalized for the user by adding different names to the tracks, adding pictures to illustrate the track as the user wants and adding a specific category for the materials. At the same time, the user can create different folders to keep organized and saved the tracks. For reason, SoundCloud has a huge potential in education, because it allows both teacher and students to create their own audio library with many different tracks. The teacher can evaluate his students by the order and quality of their audio productions.

  

Recording material for your learners on your phones

Students can record themselves using their phones, for example the teacher gives an example of a conversation, them students are going to record themselves using their phones, once they are done with the recording students can work together or individually to edit their recording then they can add music or some other special sounds to make their works even better.

Having learners record themselves to share their audios

One of the best parts of SoundCloud is the sharing part, once students are done with the editing part they are going to share their productions with the rest of the class. And using SoundCloud students can have their own audio libraries to use later or even better to share with their classmates.

Assembling a mashup to create a more complex activity for learners

One interesting way to take even more advantage of those audios is by combining them with another type of task, for example, one idea could be by creating an exam on google forms and invite their classmates to listen the audio first and then to answer the questions. Another example could be let students listen to the audios and then they need to search for some pictures to illustrate the audio, students can exchange the audios from one to another to have even a more dynamic activity.

Concluding remarks

Technology is moving so fast nowadays that in order to have really good labs is very difficult because, with the constant updates on software and hardware, it results almost impossible for teachers to have equipment in excellent conditions. But it will be excellent that every single teacher had access to the all-new technology for educational purposes in order to teach their students with the newest electronically tools, so the students are able to learn with excellent equipment but also with a good instruction by teachers. And with good orientation plus good equipment, the electronically teaching is going to be amazing. However, we have access to many different tools available for us to create and share great content with our students. It is just a matter of patience to create valuable content to use with our students and one of those tools is SoundCloud.