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Using Technology to Raise Cultural Awareness

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From www.tmenglish.org - April 19, 2012 2:49 PM

I am from the UK, but I live and work in Curitiba in the south of Brazil. I have found that students are often very interested in how things are done in different countries...

 

This means that cultural awareness was a part of my teaching long before the current obsession with doing everything with technology. I am a firm believer in using technolgoy when it offers something different and there is a strong pedagogigcal case for doing so. All too often people use the latest high-tech gizmo just for the sake of using it.

 

However, technology has opened up certain ways of raising cultural awareness that perhaps weren't there before."

 

Using YouTube, Twitter, and WebQuests -JL

 


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Add Voice-Over and 20-Language Translation Instantly To Any Presentation You Have: HelloSlide

Add Voice-Over and 20-Language Translation Instantly To Any Presentation You Have: HelloSlide | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it
From www.helloslide.com - February 2, 2012 2:54 PM

Robin Good: HelloSlide is a web-based service which allows anyone to upload a PDF (max 100MB) and add a voice-over track to it by simply adding a text copy of what needs to be said on each slide.

 

HelloSlide does the rest by generating a good quality voice over by utilizing synthsized digital voices that automatically read your script slide after slide.

 

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See examples: http://www.helloslide.com/ 

 

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