Audio+Tools

**The Audio Web 2.0 tool I liked the best is the Audio Boo. Audio Boo is a website where students and teachers can record up to three minutes of an audio recording of their voice. This is a great tool for struggling readers who have difficulty reading in front of other students. Audio Boo can give students an opportunity to record themselves reading and then play it back to hear themselves. Hearing themselves read provides the opportunity to hear mispronounced words, whether or not they paused at punctuation, hearing expression in their voice, and having an opportunity to re-record to promote fluency. Allowing students the opportunity to hear themselves read without pressure from other students will help to increase student motivation to improve fluency.** **Guthrie (2011) writes, “Believing in oneself is more closely linked to achievement than any other motivation throughout school. The reason is that confidence, which is belief in your capacity, is tied intimately to success” (p. 178). A student who knows they are a good reader is more likely to continue to do well in school. This can also have the reverse effect. Lower-achieving students can sometimes exaggerate their limitations or presumed failures. They sometimes believe they are worse than they actually perform, which can allow them to detach themselves to the learning process and in turn lose their motivation (Guthrie, 2011). When given the opportunity to actually hear themselves, these struggling readers will hear their true ability not the presumed belief because they are not reading at the same level of their peers.**

**Here is my AudioBoo sample**

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