{"id":8933,"date":"2015-12-16T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:58:15","slug":"audioboom-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/audioboom-in-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"(audio)BOOM in the New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols<\/p>\n<p>Last year at this time, <a title=\"don't forget the audio\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/dont-forget-the-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about using sound files<\/a> in your courses and shared with you an audio recording of Louis Armstrong reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.  This year, I wish to share with you an app called <a title=\"audio boom\" href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">audioBoom<\/a>.  This app offers numerous possibilities and resources for including audio components in your teaching.  This is one of the apps featured in the <a title=\"12 apps of christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/the-12-apps-of-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 Apps of Christmas<\/a> that I recently wrote about and I'm thoroughly enjoying all of the information, instructions and tips being provided.<\/p>\n<p>audioBoom is free and offers one the possibility of posting one's own audio files, podcasts, etc., as well as numerous resources.    You may just hear the sound file or click on a player which features a photo or some type of graphic.There is an American version of offerings, but you may curate whatever you like from the BBC news to personal channels to lifestyle magazines.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"life minute tv\" href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channel\/lifeminutehomeandfamily\" target=\"_blank\">LifeMinute.tv<\/a> is one such lifestyle magazine that I found while browsing and thought it was a good example of the variety of topics and formats you can see and use.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" style=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; max-width: 700px;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/3931744-gifting-your-phone-to-your-kids-be-smart-and-safe\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAO7qcVZg_jsA\" title=\"audioBoom player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>audioBoom interfaces with Facebook, Twitter and Google+.  In addition to explaining how to get started with audioBoom, <a title=\"uses for audio boom\" href=\"https:\/\/the12apps.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/15\/11-audioboom\/\" target=\"_blank\">the entry from the 12 Apps of Christmas<\/a> also gives excellent suggestions for its educational uses, so I recommend that you check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing everyone a very happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols Last year at this time, I wrote about using sound files in your courses and shared with you an audio recording of Louis Armstrong reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. This year, I wish to share with you an app called audioBoom. This app offers numerous possibilities and resources for including audio <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/audioboom-in-the-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"(audio)BOOM in the New Year!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,111,119],"class_list":{"0":"post-8933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-audio","8":"tag-distance-education","9":"tag-educational-technology","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2k5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5029,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/dont-forget-the-audio\/","url_meta":{"origin":8933,"position":0},"title":"Don&#8217;t forget the audio!","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"December 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols A few of our veteran online instructors recently had a panel on the positives of teaching online and hybrid courses. 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