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What is Titanium Recorder and what can it do for me?
Record your voice straight onto your phone, and then share it. There are plenty of apps out there that will let you do this and Titanium Recorder is one of them.

Listen to this example recorded on my woefully out of date Android phone (13 secs). media type="file" key="douglasAdamsQuote.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Available for free from the Google Play Store (it's not available for Apple yet), it's easy to use. Just press the record button and start speaking. Pause when you need to. Once stopped, the recording moves to the player where it can be played, renamed, shared or deleted by long clicking on it.

Can it transform the learner experience?
Replacement Use this to personalise feedback to students and increase their motivation. Personalised feedback enables you to point out exactly where students need to focus their attention in order to improve performance. It's often easier to get the message across with oral feedback; students may skim written feedback and not take it all in. With a recording they can pause, rewind and listen again. Students like verbal feedback; it helps to build a relationship between student and lecturer which is especially important in a distance environment.

Leeds Metropolitan University researched the benefits of audio feedback in a 2008/09 JISC funded project. In Bob Rotheram's podcast he offers practice tips on the use of audio feedback. It's organised under four headings: saving time, technical matters, administration and feedback structure. 22.3.09 Bob Rotheram draws on the project experience to offer some practice tips on the use of audio for assessment feedback (approx 12 minutes) Note that the technical issues that Bob describes are from 2008 and some are slightly dated, for example you can use your smart phone instead of a voice recorder.

Transformation If you have group activities, consider getting your students to narrate a reflective piece of peer feedback about the collaborative activity and output. Reflecting helps to embed the learning in the students' memory.

Challenge yourself

 * 1) Download Titanium Recorder from Google Play. If you have an iPhone, try out a similar iPhone friendly app from the iTunes store.
 * 2) Record a brief reflection on what your favourite app is from this challenge and why.
 * 3) Email your reflection to me (fiona.fenton@openpolytechnic.ac.nz).