Woices – location based audioguides

Woices is a FREE internet service that allows people to create, share and consume echoes, audio records that are linked to a very specific geographical location or real-world object. Woices ultimate goal is to extend reality by creating a new layer of audio information, what they call the echoesphere, that will make the world a more interesting place.

Echoes are words, left by one person at some precise place, that can be later listened to by anyone, as if their author was still there. Echoes can be about anything you want, from history, art or curiosities to personal memories or advices. An echo could even be a poem.

Audio can be recorded on portable sound recorders, on iPhones/iPod touches, or via a computer and microphone.

http://woices.com/

I got this link via a list of resources posted after a Technolanguages session :
http://technolanguages.wikispaces.com/technoLanguages+LIVE organised by Jess McCulloch

There are lots of ways this could be used in schools:

• You could produce audio trails on Field trips in Grography / Science.
• Pupils could record guides to museums or art galleries on school trips.
• Audio guides to the school or local area.
• Produce an audio trail of poems inspired by local landmarks.
• Historical information about different places and the events that happened there.
• Record guides in different languages.
• A science walk around your school/town.

And many more

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1. Online Audio Stories
2. Games Based Learning #Amplified Education Session
3. Making Music with the Myna Sound Editor