If you’re too busy to read the articles on the ICT in Education website, you can listen to them instead.
Thanks to a neat little widget from Odiogo, each article has a “Listen Now” button at the top of it. Click that, and you will be able to listen to the article read out to you. Warning: there’s a bit of delay between my posting an article and the Listen Now button working, so if you try it straight away and it doesn’t work, try again a few minutes later.
Too busy to read? Listen instead!Clicking the button is fine for the odd occasion, but what if you want to hear the articles on a regular basis, and don’t want to miss any either?The good news here is that you can subscribe to the articles as a podcast. Look at the left-hand sidebar of the website, and click on “Subscribe to the articles podcast”. You’ll be taken to a special Odiogo web page where you can select from a number of subscription options, such as iTunes.
A slightly disconcerting aspect of this approach is that the podcast is listed under the title “Articles”.
So is the quality of the reading any good? Well, if you don’t mind a robotic-sounding voice and a few mispronunciations, it does the job. From my point of view as a blogger, all it cost me was the initial set-up time, which was not very much. From a reader’s point of view, it means that not only people who are too busy to read, but also those who are too sight-impaired to be able to, don’t have to miss out. In fact, on that last aspect, it helps me as a blogger to make the website more accessible.
As it happens, the listening option has been on the website for a long time, but I haven’t drawn attention to it for a long time either.
There is a limitation, which is that it seems that only the most recent ten articles are listenable to. Given that I update the blog more or less every weekday, that amounts to two working weeks.
sources : ict in education
So if you’re going on vacation, be sure to subscribe and pack your mp3 player before you leave home!
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