The University Language Learning Project is a great example of the ways a Digital Voice Recorder can be used with the Sound Stickers Apps for kids to help children learn a language and learn to read. Using audio stickers in the home or in school to help children learn a language by translating the names of Myaamia objects into English is just one of the ways the sound stickers can be used.
The University Language-Learning Project
At the Livescribe digital voice recorder is used with a penlet and a set of dot paper adhesive-backed audio stickers to teach Myaamia language names of objects around the house. The voice recording stickers attached to objects to teach the Myaamia language names may have recorded English equivalents and definitions.The sound stickers are also used to produce language-learning flash cards.
To obtain more information regarding this novel Sound Stickers Application, obtain the printed labels or the Myaamia Home Learning Kit, please contact Livescribe, Inc or the Myaamis Project at Miami University.
Other Imaginative Uses of an Echo Digital Voice Recorder with Sound Stickers
Suppose you have a World map hanging on the wall somewhere in the classroom or hall and the students look at it as well as listen to recording on a sticker representing a country.. With a audio sticker affixed to each country, kids can actually listen to the names, the capitals, industries and even trivia. Doesn’t this sound fun? You can make a map like this come to life just by using an Echo Digital Voice Recorder and the Livescribe Sound Stickers Application.
How this Digital Voice Recorder Learning Resource Operates
The way this Livescribe Digital Voice Recording Smartpen works is not that complicated. It digitally records sounds in a way similar to a teacher talking into the microphone of a MP3 recorder and player. The biggest difference is the fact that the recording device is a pen. It operates like a true pen only it can capture sounds and record handwriting and drawing at the same time.
With a digital sound recorder, many students in elementary school, who need some assistance with their schoolwork, can simply record their classroom lessons to play back later in the day or at home at night. They can replay their lessons slowly and multiple times to improve reading comprehension.
Foreign language learners can benefit greatly from using a digital sound recorder like the Livescribe Echo Smartpen to record conversations and classroom lectures. Audio recording stickers are great for helping students practice new vocabulary. One way many students can practice vocabulary for the week is to write a vocabulary word on each sticker and record the word pronunciation and definition. The sound stickers are adhesive-backed so the new words for each week could be listed on a chart or word wall. A Sticker recording instructions could provide hints or clues to add fun as a student practices. Livescribe Sound Stickers Story apps for kids can do many more innovative things than play back classroom lessons.
