Stay Connected with Google Voice One of the keys to distance learning is being present. You can not just throw things online and walk away. If students are unable to come to school they will likely have questions. Email and chat are one of several ways for students to reach out and connect. However, being…
Category: Voice
Voice Typing Comes to Google Docs
Google Docs now allow for voice typing. I use voice typing on my phone all the time, this is a welcome addition to Google Docs. I am amazed at how accurate the voice typing is. Make sure you talk at a slower pace, carefully enunciating each word. I find it helps to talk a little…
5 Things You Can Do With Google Voice
Google Voice (http://voice.google.com) allows you to sign up for a Google phone number and connect multiple phones to that phone number. You can have it set up to call your classroom phone, cell phone, and home phone all at the same time. Thus ensuring you never miss a call. What I love is that I…
Podcasting with Google Voice and GarageBand
I have long been a fan of Google Voice. It allows you to create a new phone number and attach your other phone numbers so that you can give out your number without disclosing your real phone number. I like to have students text message the Google Voice number and to use this as a…
Google Voice for Deaf Students
I was doing some brainstorming with some teachers of deaf students. I was having my college students use Google Voice as a quick and dirty podcasting method (I’ll save that for another blog). Obviously this will not work for deaf students, it is an auditory tool. But can Google Voice be a tool for teaching…
Google Voice for Educators
TjHouston.com posted to his blog 5 reasons why every educator should have a Google Voice account. I have blogged previously about my love for Google Voice in the classroom. I will add in a couple of my own reasons. Keeping my cell phone number private, I give out my Google Voice number to students and…
Google Voice in the classroom
What is Google Voice? In short it gives you a new phone number that you can attach multiple phone numbers to. So an individual can call your Google Voice number and it will ring all the phones you put in the settings AT THE SAME TIME. But the beauty of it is that you can…
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