Activity 8: Producing presentations using an OUblog

Aim: Get students to present monologs in their Moodle blogs

Moodle modules: OUblog

Extra programs: NanoGong

Ease of setup: *

There's nothing like having to give an oral presentation to focus students' minds and help them prepare and develop their speaking skills. This activity combines an OUblog and a sound recorder on Moodle to do that: students record their own presentations and publish them in their own blogs. Once again, we'll use NanoGong to record voices and the add-on OUblog to present the recordings.

Tip

Using a regular Moodle blog

If your administrator has not added the OUblog module, you can use a regular Moodle blog, but you won't be able to include the instructions in the blog, and you won't have a comment facility.

Once students have made their recordings, they can embellish their blogs with text and images. Here are some examples of presentations our students could do:

• Narratives

• Stories

• Diaries

• Descriptions

• News

In our example they're...