myBrainshark: An everlasting impression of your presentation
Ever thought of your PowerPoint presentations and documents speaking for themselves? or a talking photo album?
myBrainshark is a tool that helps you lend your voice to present, practice, narrate or demonstrate ideas and all of this for FREE. This tool originally was created for business enhancement but is now used across the world for teaching and learning.
It has a quick, easy, hassle-free sign-up which enables you to create an account and explore all possible ways to make your presentations in the most effective way possible.
myBrainshark helps students to practice and record their speaking activities and share them with their teachers and classmates. Peer and teacher feedback promote collaboration and through the feedback the students can reflect and act; thus generating learner autonomy. The sign-up account stores all the contents created by the user, which acts as an audio-visual portfolio of the user. Through this tool, the students can practice and hone the skills of public speaking and presentations.
Teachers can use myBrainshark as an element of 'flipped classroom' by creating materials and adding their own voice to it. The materials can then be shared with the learners. This allows teacher save classroom time on introduction or explanation of any topic and can rather concentrate on the students' application and practice of the lesson. This further helps teachers check learners' understanding of the topic.
Lets take a look at Russell Stannard's myBrainshark tutorial and see how this tool works:
I hope you and your students like this tool. Do experiment and share your experience with me!
I used this tool to try my first ever flipped learning experiment with my upper intermediate students. Not sure I enjoy recording my voice, but my students could certainly appreciate the benefits of flipped learning. A very useful tool.
ReplyDeleteI used this tool to try my first ever flipped learning experiment with my upper intermediate students. Not sure I enjoy recording my voice, but my students could certainly appreciate the benefits of flipped learning. A very useful tool.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne, Thank you for writing in!
DeleteGlad to know you've used this tool! how did your students react to it?
I like the bit of 'zing' to the presentations one can add with this tool.
Teacher-students interactions may not exist when playing it in class. but it's really useful for students' self-learning.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback!
DeleteI do agree that this tool doesn't really involve interaction, however, it definitely helps in making things very clear, be it presentations, demo lessons or instructions.