No, this post is not about criticising vociferously (!), but about the use of ‘Audiboo’. According to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones, this is the ‘next big thing’, almost the equivalent of ‘YouTube’ (he discusses this in his ‘dot.life’ technology blog). AudiBoo involves recording & uploading (on iPhones – a similar application called PhoneBoo does the same for most other phones), and needs wifi/3G. A related application  -‘Ipadio’ – is a ” live streaming phone reporting tool” that generates ‘phlogs’ (again, available now on iPhones and being developed for any phone; a ‘record & publish’ version should be available in due course, also). The likes of Stephen Fry have been ‘booing’ (not like him to be left out!), and Boris Johnson has been ‘phlogging’ (yes, well he did go to Eton, didn’t he?!).
There could be many educational uses for these tools, eg. recording observations on fieldwork, commentaries on experiments. Rory Cellan-Jones makes reference to a specific project run by the BBC World Service called ‘Save Our Sounds’, the aim of which is to gather sounds from around the world which might otherwise be lost.

Have you used AudiBoo? How did you find it, and how useful do you think it might be in education?