Tags for "Humanized Learning"
Ambiguity about Online Teaching
There's a TV show on this summer that I have caught a few times called "Minute to Win It" in which there's this sort of computerized voice narrating various challenges and counting down to the start time (hear example here). For some reason, this voice irks me. I suspect that it is truly a person speaking, but it has this computerized monotone sound that rubs me wrong. It's as if the creators of the show felt like it would be "cool" to have this semi-human-sounding,...
Posted on Aug 18, 2010 - 09:57 AM by Kristan Morrison in democracy.edu
I missed my July posting due to being buried up with summer teaching along with trying to grab some moments of R&R (I know, excuses, excuses), but as George Costanza on Seinfeld would say, "I'm back, baby, I'm back!"There's a TV show on this summer that I have caught a few times called "Minute to Win It" in which there's this sort of computerized voice narrating various challenges and counting down to the start time (hear example here). For some reason, this voice irks me. I suspect that it is truly a person speaking, but it has this computerized monotone sound that rubs me wrong. It's as if the creators of the show felt like it would be "cool" to have this semi-human-sounding,...