Hello, everyone! Learning Resources recently sent us some products for review AND offered to give a few to some lucky followers. The first product is their Easi-Speak USB Recorder. I read many different reviews and agreed with what many other teachers said. This would be great for fluency practice, center work, etc. However, I had something different in mind... :)
The students recently completed a moon research project. We were going to share them with parents and one child mentioned that her parent would not be able to come the day of our moon readings. That's when the Easi-Speak recorder came to mind! I recorded the students whose parent couldn't make it to our presentation, plugged the Easi-Speak into my computer, and emailed the recordings to those families! The kids were so excited and their parents were so proud! The files are saved as MP3 files so they're easy to save and email and the sound quality is great.
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How would you use the Easi-Speak in your classroom? Leave us a comment, along with your email address, and one random winner will receive their own Easi-Speak from Learning Resources! The winner will be announced on Thursday.
75 comments:
I would use it for writing...I let them use fake phones now to tell grandma all about it- then write the way you told her....to add more voice and word choice....imagine if they could hear it back...it would be awesome!
Staci
Going Nutty!
misssquirrels@yahoo.com
I would use these during Daily 5... especially during read to self so they can listen back to their reading and make sure they are reading with fluency! How awesome would that be?
Yay!
❤ Sandra
Sweet Times in First
sweettimesinfirst@gmail.com
I would love to use it to practice reading fluency!
sunburst541@gmail.com
I love your idea about emailing the presentations! We have a play coming up and it would be awesome to have an Easi Speak to record it! Add that to fluency and I would use it a lot! I also have lots of parents who don't speak English, and this would be a great way for them to hear the weekly spelling and vocabulary words that my students have each week! Hmmm - For writing, how about students reading their first draft ? They would hear some of their grammar mistakes right away when reading, and then more when they listen back. The ideas are endless!
kristyteach@gmail.com
The possibilities are endless.
khall312@verizon.net
I would use it to create digital storybooks! This would be an easy way to add the voice of the children to powerpoint presentations containing their self-illustrated and written stories! Jamie dot aja dot grimes at gmail dot com
I would love to use this to have my students record their individualized spelling words! It was such a challenge for me this past year to do my rounds giving my students their differentiated spelling tests! I would also love this for transcribing interviews, something we do quite often during Social Studies! What an awesome tool!
brittanyadavies@gmail.com
This would be great to use during Daily 5! I would also love to use it with a few of my students who are having trouble with fluency and correcting their mistakes while reading. This is such a great resource.
Kelly
kwinget@comcast.net
What a great product! I would love to use it for reading stories to download as mp3 files and then use to play back!
Molly
mchang@reyn.org
This would be great to use witha all of my students. I love this product!
Beth
bethfriedman123@gmail.com
Oops! with all
I would use it during my literacy center rotations in my Fluency Center.
Barbara
happyteachingfirst.blogspot.com
meadowt@msn.com
I would love to use this as a workstation for the kids to rotate through as I work with small groups. It would also be really great for shy students to use when giving oral reports, so they could practice and hear how they sound ahead of time.
Thanks so much!
Laura Miller
msmillersmunchkins.blogspot.com
millerl15@frontier.com
I would use it for fluency and the students could make their stories become audio books.
Lorena
Lorena.delgadillo@gmail.com
This looks wonderful! I can see lots of possibilities for the use of this tool!
Carmen
carmen.zeisler@mcpherson.com
This would be wonderful to use as a fluency center or to record projects on! I would love this.
Jessica
jessica.peck@jefferson.kyschools.us
I would like to use it for students to work on spelling, but there are really so many possibilities!!
aniwilsonintx at hotmail dot com
I would love to use this for a beginning of the year welcome project. I have my students draw themselves on the computer with kidspiration. Then they type a few sentences about themselves. After typing, the students read their sentences and then we add the audio to their pictures. At the end, I compile all of the pictures and audio to a DVD and then they can take the DVD home to introduce their families to their new classmates.
I also LOVE the ideas about fluency...it would be so useful in the classroom!!!
jenwarren20@gmail.com
Would use it to help my dsylexic students practice their reading. Also, with our Reading program the online fluency part does not work so we could use this to record their readings.
Marianne
mabtennis@gmail.com
we ar learning Spanish and German and this would be a great item
Lorraine
jolomejd@aol.com
Love the idea to use this for parents who cannot make it to a writer's publishing party! But could also use this in writing to jumpstart my reluctant writers. In reading aside from individual fluency recording, it would be nice to use with my buddy readers as well.
Kim
I would use this for fluency. What a great tool;) other ideas that come to mind are for plays, poetry, and even recording conversations in think-pair-share groups because they interrupt each other more than they realize. Teaching good social skills is essential too!;)
I would use this for literacy centers!
kroltgen at gmail dot com
This is such a wonderful idea! I love it! Jessica
Great idea on how to use it for those families that couldn't make it. I think I would use it for fluency. I also like the fun ideas others have given for adding narration to a powerpoint presentation.
Crystal
kristiandcrystal at gmail dot com
I would utilize this product during my Daily 5 rotations. Students could record reading poetry fluently, or simply read aloud sight words/vocabulary words aloud. This would be an amazing addition to our classroom!
I work with our school district to homeschool my son who is ADD and dyslexic and this would be an amazing tool for him to hear himself reading and boost his confidence in himself.
I would use this in my French classes so the students could hear their pronunciation and fluency. I would like to also use in Daily 5 routines so they can practice their fluency there as well.
I have a group of struggling second graders. I would love to have them use this in the classroom and have my students hear themselves while reading. It would be a very useful tool in having them start to read with expression and also begin the hard skill of self-correcting, which is one of the skills that they lack the most.
Really would love this for a fluency center!!
Laura
tattlingtotheteacher@gmail.com
www.tattlingtotheteacher.blogspot.com
I've been wanting one all year. I would use this for my fluency station and it would be great for Author's Chair.
missnelsonattpt@yahoo.com
I would use the Easi-Speak in our Reader's Theater,Daily 5, and when we read aloud our writing picks!
mamabain1@hotmail.com
i would use it for fluency, reading and listening centres, could see use of it during recording or the observations of science experiments etc. love to win it, mary at apopovic@primus.ca
Looks like a great learning tool!!
mallen765@gmail.com
I would use Easi-Speak several different ways! The first would be for fluency workstation. One student would read a selection. Their buddy would listen to the selection and rate their reading. Also, I would record students several times a year and keep it on a computer file. Students would be able to hear how their fluency has improved throughout the year.
Aimee
aimee@vanmiddlesworth.org
I would love this product for my classroom! I am going back to Kindergarten next year and would love to use it during guided reading.
krisnath09@gmail.com
I think this product would be awesome. There are so many different ways to use it.
themeekmoose@gmail.com
This product sounds great and easy to use. I would definitely use it for reading - fluency and assessment. I would also have the kids read their writing so they could listen to it back again. That makes such a difference. In Spanish, my kids present conversation skits to practice their vocabulary. Also, I am doing a rock star theme in my 3rd grade classroom next year, so we need a cool microphone. :) I can see the kids singing our multiplication songs and much more!
sheshe2409@gmail.com
I would have my students use it to read their writing out loud. They would love it! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Lori (luvyorkies@gmail.com)
Teaching With Love and Laughter
I would use it for my students to record their reading for me to listen back to and for them to read their stories that they write. These Easi-Speaks seem great!
Lisa
Learning Is Something to Treasure
I think this would be a great tool to use in small group instruction. I love teaching fluency and think that I could probably do MORE of it. :)
Thanks for the giveaway!
Amanda
amanda.c.archer@gmail.com
http://sweetiesinsecond.blogspot.com
I would use this for so many things! I would use it to record my students when they are reading. I teach special education students that can get very overwhelmed with presentations, so this would be a great way for them to record by themselves and then play for us what they want to say. I want to do a Wax Museum next year with my students, but I want them to have a recording instead of having to talk as students walk through the Wax Museum, so this would help us with that project!
heather.salsman@gmail.com
I want an Easi-Speak!!! They seem so useful!
bcallahan@usd259.net
This is so great!! I would have the kids practice their poems with the Easi-Speak. They would also be able to record and listen back. They could do with read to someone as well! LOVE!
Katie
smileykate52@hotmail.com
Cute idea! What about emailing parents a small file with their successes of the day?!
Blessings,
Jessica.Stanford@me.com
Jessica Stanford
Mrs. Stanford's Class Blog is Having a Giveaway!
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I would use this for recording their writing.
Wanda
wnekola@viking.portage.k12.oh.us
I would love to use the easi-speak to let them hear the mistakes in their writing during editing and revising.
Heather Tack
Heather.b.tack@gmail.com
I would use this for my ESL students- fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation, anything to practice their language skills.
heathernnance@yahoo.com
I would love to use it for writing time or for fluency practice! My first graders would love it!
Maureen
bluehenteacher@gmail.com
The First Grade Splash
I would use it for fluency practice or have the students read for each other as a listening center.
Ruthanne rarace81@gmail.com
I would use it to record my kids during writing. Since not all parents are able to attend our publishing parties, I would send the recordings of their child reading his or her story. That way, no one would feel bad that his or her parents weren't able to hear the story being read!
Liz
langhoff.elizabeth@gmail.com
I would love to use it to increase reading fluency during reading centers with my students!
bl3982@yahoo.com
I would use it for fluency practice, assessment, and for an alternative to writing for my inclusion students.
Learning in Bliss
I would use this for students to record books for each other to then listen back on an iPod or a CD. I would also use it for presentations and to record running records! Too cool!
thescarbroughs0311@att.net
Whitney
I would use it for compositions in music class and vocal assessments throughout the year to track student's growth.
smithmusicteacher@gmail.com
Definitely for fluency practice. Kids don't realize what they sound like until they hear themselves.
I could use it to help my low readers become better - they could read along as I read their story. I could also use it for fluency and perhaps instead of a written accountability piece at a center. Would love to win this!
Sara
sub.scribe@yahoo.com
There are SOOOO many wonderful things that I would love to use this for. Our school is a school with such high poverty and many of my parents work 2-3 jobs and are unable to break away to see school happenings. I like the idea of being able to share those meaningful moments with parents/family. Hoping to win!
There are so many wonderful ways I could use this product. I will be moving from third grade to first grade and the first thing I thought of was having the kids build fluency by recording themselves and by recording books for the listening library. Wow! The ideas are really churning. I would love to win this!
Oh my after watching the youtube videos and checking out the Learning Resources website the ideas started flowing. I would you these in my browsing box area for kids to read into and then I can play back their recordings (also could be done in my library area). I would also use this with the new projection system (like a smartboard) in my room to make interactive games and activities for large group times. The possiblities could be endless. Thanks for sharing this product.
ldjones35@yahoo.com
I would use this with my third graders to help develop their writing voice and fluency! They would love it!
mrs.aronowitz@gmail.com
I would use the Easi-Speak with my third graders to help them practice their reading fluency. I would also use it to have them practice reading their stories during writing workshop aloud. Nothing like hearing your own voice!
Bforbes89@gmail.com
Wow! I love the opportunities this product can give me in the classroom and I've loved reading all the ideas. I would like to use it with 2 specific groups - my ELL kiddos with very little English language (and whose parents usually have less English) and my special education kiddos. I love that you can email these presentations so not only could I use it to work on vocabulary and fluency in reading groups but with emailing it to the parent it will provide a tool for my non English speaking families to assist them with daily take home readers/reading at home. I think the children would be so excited too to be able to hear themselves reading a book they read at school from their home computer. It would be a great tool for my special ed children who need extra time to process and comprehend what they are reading. I'm super excited about the possibilities of this tool.
Like others have mentioned, this would be fantastic in our fluency workstation. I also love the idea of making digital storybooks.
eah08i@hotmail.com
I would have my students use it for reading fluency as well as interviewing friends for writing projects, making verbal notes to themselves for writing, blogging/video voiceovers and more! ;-)
I would love for my students to use this tool. Using it for fluency would be wonderful in my classroom. :o)
Jennifer
jennkeys @ gmail . com
I was just looking for some type of microphone for Oral Language Development! Great product!
Christine
This would be wonderful during literacy centers!!
Jeannie
Jhunter0724@yahoo.com
I would use the Easi Speak to help my students with reading fluency during Reader's Theater performances!
AUsunflower9@yahoo.com
❀Bethany❀
Learning is a Journey
Polka Dot Parlor
Just recently learned about the Easi Speak- so in love! What a wonderful resource for lit circles, working on fluency, and improving writing voices. Thanks for a great opportunity!
Britt
B5L2M8@gmail.com
Every year I hold a vocabulary parade and a poetry reading day. At both events students read infront of group of parents. It would be wonderful to post their readings on my website for the parents that couldn't get off work.
asambrosia@aol.com
Glad to see you're a pinterest addict too! I've also started using TES Lesson Plans for finding new ideas.
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