Experimenting with Vocaroo for Task 12.5

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Task 11.7 What do you feel would be the right balance in class/self-study for use of these tools?

It’s important that the tools don’t take over or distract the learner away from the main focus or objective of the lesson. They should be used carefully and thoughtfully with a clear purpose in mind. The learners should be taught how to use the tools so that they feel at ease with both the tool  and the technology.  This would allow them to focus on the task rather than on the process involved.  By using Web 2.0 tools the learner can carry out the activities much more easily thus giving the learner the opportunity to concentrate on the language aspect of the task.

Devil's Dictionary

1) ............... : a person who corrects or changes pieces of text or films before they are printed or shown, or a person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine.

Definition from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus

2) ............... : a person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the ....... spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.

O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought,          

A gilded impostor is he.      

Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought,                  

His crown is brass,                  

Himself an ass,          

And his power is fiddle-dee-dee.      

Prankily, crankily prating of naught,      

Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought.          

Public opinion's camp-follower he,          

Thundering, blundering, plundering free.                     Affected,                          

Ungracious,                      

Suspected,                          

Mendacious,      

Respected contemporaree!                                                       

J.H. Bumbleshook

Definition from The Devil's Dictionary

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