1. Voxopop: Voiced based e-learning tool.
Voxopop is used by educators all over the
world, Voxopop talk groups are a fun,
engaging and easy-to-use way to help
students develop their speaking skills. They
are a bit like message boards, but use voice
rather than text and have a specialized user
interface. No longer confined to a physical
classroom, teachers and students of oral skills
can interact from home, or even from
opposite sides of the planet.
2. Voxopop works in:
1. Language learning
2. Conversation practice
3. Collaboration projects
4. Oral presentations.
http://www.voxopop.com/
3. How to use Voxopop:
• When you open the Voxopop page you will get
the home page, where you will see options
like:
• HOME: On this page you will see what Voxopop has to offer.
• EXPLORE: If you want to look at how Voxopop is used by
others, you can click on ‘Explore’ and check out on the
talkgroups that are public.
• START A TALKGROUP: You can create your own talkgroup by
clicking here and filling up the form that is provided. After you
have created your talkgroup, you can send invitation to your
students, friend and family.
4. • HELP: Incase you face some difficulty in using Voxopop, like
uploading or listening to your group members, you can always
take help by clicking on the ‘Help’ option and follow the
instructions given there.
• BLOG: If you want to know about the changes made to
Voxopop by the creator, you can check it here.
• CONTACT: After using Voxopop, if you have any queries or
complaints, you can always provide your feedback to the
provided links.
5. Features of functionality Affordances
1. Create groups. Allows collaborative
information discovery and
sharing
2. Ability to post Communities of learners
asynchronous comments can see and respond to
related to the topic or the the cumulative postings
comments posted. and ‘collective wisdom’
6. 3. Ability to invite groups and The ‘learning conversation’
keep the thread private, public can be managed by the
or a mixture teacher or learner to ensure it
is open to the appropriate
audience
4. Foster identity exploration: Empathy (encouraging learners
individualization and to see the world from
socialization. alternate perspectives)
7. 5. Bycarefully selecting a 5. New knowledge is created
suitable piece of work learners through the incongruity
could be asked to undertake a between people’s knowledge
series of different roles. and the information in the
Voxopop.
8. Conclusion:
The aim and objective for the creation of
Voxopop, was to bring people together in an
environment of constructive communication,
be a bridge between people of different social,
political and religious contexts.