Karaoke Alongside A Social Network

Well it had to happen! As every other sort of site these days has a social network attached to it, why non karaoke too?The site I've been looking at is called RedKaraoke together with it has quite a few useful features. There isn't a huge gain of songs in that place yet, exactly users tin upload their own, it also has a spider web cam characteristic thus for potential singers who desire to hold upwardly seen equally good equally heard you lot tin direct maintain your spider web cam hooked upwardly land you lot sing.

As amongst most karaoke, in that place are background tracks together with you lot run into the words of the lyrics highlighted equally you lot are supposed to sing them. You tin charge per unit of measurement other singers also together with direct maintain your ain profile equally good equally direct maintain role inwards forums (mainly used for technical back upwardly yesteryear the looks of things) together with there's also synchronous chat too.

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The high ranking singers acquire pushed to the top, together with if you lot similar someone you lot tin exit encouraging messages of support.

So why work this amongst EFL students?
Anyone who has ever taught a EFL / ELT volition know how powerful together with motivating music together with vocal tin hold upwardly to assistance students acquire language, thus sites similar this tin hold upwardly actually useful.

• If your students are interested inwards music together with singing, you lot tin acquire them along to the site to tape a few of their favourite songs (Onlye the to a greater extent than confident students though)
• You tin acquire students to psyche together with charge per unit of measurement other singers also together with exit messages for them if they similar them (though don't encourage messages to singers they don't like)
• The site has the words together with music to quite few songs, thus fifty-fifty if your students don't experience confident plenty to tape themsleves, they could even thus acquire some practise inwards the privacy of their ain homes.
• If students create tape themselves you lot tin acquire them to charge per unit of measurement each other together with run into if whatever of your students tin acquire into the locomote yesteryear ranking list.

What I similar almost it

• Well equally ever for me the root attraction is that it's free.
• There are a gain of songs together with it's non all inwards English, thus if you lot are education or learning other languages together with then in that place is potential cloth here.
• I similar that you lot tin direct maintain the spider web cam recording too.
• The interface is quite slow to acquire around uncomplicated to use.

What I wasn't thus certain about

• I intend this is going to hold upwardly pretty bandwidth hungry, peculiarly if you lot are using a spider web cam too, thus solely ane for broadband users working lone from home.
• The character of some of the audio files wasn't thus great, exactly that's e'er going to hold upwardly the illustration amongst Web 2.0 type content.
• Looks from the forum similar a few people direct maintain had problems amongst getting their recording synchronised, though I'm guessing that switching off the wqebcam would assistance amongst this.
• As amongst whatever site where students are asked to register together with add together a profile, hold upwardly certain your students know how to protect their pivacy together with personal information.

In theory, if you lot direct maintain students who similar karaoke, this could hold upwardly a potentially rattling useful site. To hold upwardly honest I'm non a bang-up fan of the fine art together with direct maintain to acknowledge that I didn't brand recording myslef, exactly idea I would part the site anyway, equally I know some teachers together with students actually relish it.

Hers the ful URL of the site: http://www.redkaraoke.com/

Hope you lot uncovering this useful

Best

Nik Peachey