 Hello this is Ross at Teacher Toolkit. For about 10 years I've been using voice technology which is immersed in all our devices, computers, phones, Google Alexa and all those types of devices we now have in our everyday life. As a teacher or school leader I started to use this technology around 2010 when I used to work with a head teacher who was paralyzed with a neck down and I always share his wisdom and how that then influenced my work as a teacher, as a school leader, as a blogger and as a writer and now I can potentially work two or three times quicker than you simply by doing very simple things. So I have DragonDictate installed on my computer and that learns my accent, grammatical syntax, all sorts of things using a bit of artificial intelligence to get even more smarter about how I work. But this is Google Documents, it's free and all I would go here is to tools, voice typing, select the language, so if I'm a French teacher I might want to select French but I've got different themes here, marking feedback lesson plan and providing feedback to a teacher. So here's a quick demonstration, press the microphone. I'm just demonstrating how easy it is to provide written feedback to a student simply by speaking into my device, full stop, new paragraph. Imagine if you worked in this way, question mark. Now that's quite a simple demonstration, you didn't hear me typing any buttons on the keyboard like I am doing now. I've also installed the add-on, Kizina which is free, so I've already got it open over here. Now I can select anything here and I've got choices down here. Now let's say that the student has typed this up and you'll see that an option popped up there. Let's just say they've spelled the word device wrong so I'm just going to put in a letter Z there as an example. I'll double click this letter, I get the choices here, you can see I can change the colors so I want you to fix that or a green might symbolize, it's great, well done. So now I'm going to say it's a spelling mistake, typing the voice message. Hello Ross, just to let you know you've spelled the word device incorrectly, please could you retype or speak or provide some feedback in the class of how you would spell this word correctly. So I press stop and post, that recording gets uploaded, that's now there, so whenever I press this, I've got a plug in here, Grammarly which gives me the correct spelling, but if I just press it here, you'll see on the right hand side, it gives me the voice message, so let's just play that back. Hello Ross, just to let you know you've spelled the word device incorrectly, please could you retype or speak or provide some feedback in the class of how you would spell this word correctly. So really easy, let's say I'm really happy with this paragraph again, green. Ross, this is a fantastic piece of work, well done, please see XYZ for more written comments and look at the success criteria. So you can kind of get the idea, now I've started to use this in writing blogs, writing Mark Planteech, which at least 50% of the book was spoken on my device, I've used this also in observation settings, starting with a blank piece of paper and then providing questions, taking photographs of the student's work, recording voice clips or videos of what the teacher does to then look back at this data to then provide the teacher with something concrete to look at when we provide feedback and all I would do here is just simply post some questions, why did this happen, why did you say that and so on and so forth. Now I know lots of you are already using this, but hopefully you might be someone who's not thought about using this before, this would synchronize on Google Docs, which is free to my computer at work at home or on my mobile phone and I can work much smarter. So let's as teachers start to learn how to optimize the way in which we work and how to provide verbal feedback, but use some tools to record and type, it might just help improve the way that we work and thanks for watching, find out more on teachertoolkit.co.uk