As most people know, Skype is a freely available VOIP plan which allows users to brand estimator to estimator 'telephone calls' for free. What many people don't know is that in that place is also a huge attain of 'plugins' available for Skype which expand in addition to heighten its functionality in addition to plow it into an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than useful tool for instruction in addition to learning.
This starting fourth dimension video shows how you lot notice in addition to install these extra plugins in addition to focuses on 1 inward item (Pamela) which helps you lot to tape your Skype calls.
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I promise you lot tin consider how slow it is to start installing in addition to expanding the functionality of Skype.
Having this powerfulness to tape calls truly helps every bit us linguistic communication teachers in addition to every bit materials creators to acquire a lot to a greater extent than out of this costless program.
Watch the moving painting tutorial to consider how to start recording your calls.
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So how do nosotros utilization this alongside our students
- This is non bad if you lot are doing whatever concern preparation or preparation students involved inward Call centres or client services where the telephone is a major agency of interaction alongside customers. You tin gear upwardly telephone role plays tape them in addition to hand your students feedback on their performance.
- You tin tape representative / model telephone calls for them in addition to acquire them to psyche in addition to analyse how good the callers performed.
- With full general ELT / EFL students you lot tin also gear upwardly a attain of telephone role plays in addition to tape them (These could live on task interviews, ringing most renting a flat, booking a hire automobile etc.) There are a whole attain of existent footing tasks for which nosotros demand to utilization the telephone for in addition to giving your students the powerfulness to endeavour these scenarios out in addition to thence psyche dorsum in addition to evaluate their ain surgical physical care for tin live on rattling empowering.
- You could tape some dialogues or interviews alongside friends or boyfriend teachers for students to psyche to.
- Students could interview each other in addition to tape in addition to do their ain tasks for each other.
- You could inquire students to utilization Skype for collaborative piece of occupation (group conferencing is possible) in addition to tape their meetings for you lot to hand them feedback on.
What I similar most it
- Pamela is free, slow to utilization in addition to records good to Mp3 format which tin easily live on edited or imported in addition to used inward other multimedia projects.
- The Mp3s tin also live on used on i-pods or other mobile devices
- The plugin is slow to configure in addition to quick to download
- Using vocalization entirely for communication alongside no visual cues from facial facial expression or trunk drive is rattling challenging for linguistic communication learners, thence this is a non bad way to practise in addition to perfect this.
What to live on careful about
- You tin entirely tape upwardly to xv mins on the costless version, precisely that should live on plenty for most purposes.
- Never tape people without their knowledge, it's truly illegal inward some countries
- Both Skype in addition to Pamela demand to live on downloaded in addition to installed, thence if you lot are working alongside computers inward your school, thence you lot mightiness demand to persuade a few people earlier they let you lot to do this.
- Make certain that if students are using their ain Skype user names in addition to accounts that they are careful most who they portion these with, every bit Skype does attract some nuisance callers.
I promise you lot notice this a useful add-on to your instruction toolkit. I'd live on interested to take away heed from anyone who is already using these tools, in addition to peculiarly if anyone is using other Skype plugins to tape or extent their Skype functionality.
Best
Nik
