Reading Aloud

Online learning is going to require us to read, that much is certain. Or not? Could we hear it read to us, aloud? If we were in a classroom together, words would only be spoken, save for the powerpoint slide or two. A great lecture is better delivered to the ears than read from white paper, isn't it? Online, we seem confined to the visually digested word.

There are tools that read screen text. While designed for the visually impaired, the thought of being read to sounds preferable to squinting into the glowing rectangle some more. I enjoy podcast shows and find the most fascinating things out there to listen to. I started listening to Byzantine History lecture podcasts so exciting, my 12 year old enjoys them. Listening is a very easy way to absorb the material for me, which I suppose makes me over on the auditory learner part of the pie.

We'll make podcasts in this course in a few weeks, and hear how our blogs sound.

When I imagine the incredible realm of things technology is now possible of, having an interpretation software built right into the browser doesn't seem that wild. And it would be nice to have the option.