164 - Find Your Voice

Day 164. This little clip was made using a new tool from Adobe called Adobe Voice. While it's a little limited in what it can do, it's super easy to use and makes telling stories very simple. Some of our students at school used it to produce some marvellous presentations this week, so it inspired me to make my own to figure out more about how it works.  Here's a cheesy little sample I made tonight.



While it clearly has educational uses, what I don't like abut it is that you can't save the finished video file to your iPad's camera roll, making it somewhat limited in usefulness since most students will not be able to share it via Twitter to Facebook. Instead it gets hosted on Adobe servers, and has to be embedded from there. Not really ideal for schools.

095 - Fifty Searches

Day 95. Google voice search is pretty amazing. Not only can it actually understand the sound of your voice to convert it to words - often no mean feat in itself - it can also then return answers to your questions in mere milliseconds. For today's create I asked Google Search 50 questions using nothing but voice. The speed and accuracy of the answers are pretty stunning, and a great example of why we need to be asking our students to be doing much more than simply recalling facts.