Comments on: Voice Comment (built-in resource)

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:44:07 +0000

Nice post Paul. I feel like this is one of those posts, I will refer to for a long time.

By: Diane LaGrone…still talkin’ about reading! » Blog Archive » Fabulous Word program feature

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:25:49 +0000

[...] technology…what exciting days those are! I was so excited this week about a posting at the Free Technology for Teachers blog. Paul described a wonderful feature in Word where you can add a voice comment using an [...]

By: Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:15:21 +0000

To dmlagrone, and any other Mac users, I’m terribly sorry for not including a disclaimer that I work almost exclusively in a PC environment. I think we should be able to assume that features available in MS Office on one platform should be available on the other. Apparently, this is not so. So, I’m sorry if I’ve inadvertently caused frustration and you’ve been unable to get Voice Comments to work on a Mac! –Paul

By: dmlagrone

dmlagrone — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:37:26 +0000

ARGH>>>>>

Paul, I have spent the last hour trying to make this work. After calling in my techie, we discovered that this doesn’t work on a MAC! If you know of a way that it does, PLEASE let me know!

By: Grace Kat

Grace Kat — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:12:49 +0000

Thank you so much! I will certainly try this out with one of my 9 year old students.

By: Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:28:04 +0000

Thanks for this helpful contribution, Jim.

Here’s the URL for Jim’s wiki: http://inclusivetechnologies.wikispaces.com/

–Paul

By: Jim Sprialis

Jim Sprialis — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:23:12 +0000

Hi Paul
You’re absolutely right. The Insert Sound Object should be placed in the toolbar as default by school administrators. All students should have easy access to it. I actually prefer adding the ‘Insert Voice’ to the toolbar. That way formatting of text is not affected. The audio comment is added in the margin of the document. An added benefit is that text can also be added in the review box containing the audio file. This is especially useful when students are making voice notes during a reading task or if teachers want to embed a comment when reviewing the student’s work. I have a help file on my wiki outlining this feature.
Jim