Start exploring (introduction and links to
Voice Academy rooms)
- The Main Office provides bibliographic,
technical, historical and contact information. It's an all-around resource
center.
- A Nurse's Office contains information
about voice disorders and helps teachers sort out when they should seek
out one-on-one medical care and when to try to work through voice problems
on their own.
- The Media Center describes amplification
systems. For many teachers, a portable or wireless system gives their
voices just the vocal boost they need to get them through the day.
- In the Gymnasium, teachers are invited
to explore the healthy body/healthy voice connection.
- The Science Center provides a quick tutorial
about how humans create voice and describes other great tidbits, such
as information about the ageing voice and hot topics in voice research.
- In the Auditorium, we delve into the
field of theatre voice. Here, you can learn how stage actors warm up
and effectively project their voices all the way to the last row of
the theatre. A teacher can use these same methods in the classroom.
- The Ladies Room describes the impact of
fluctuating female hormones on the voice.
- You will learn about vocal fatigue in — where else? — the
Teachers' Lounge. Very recent research about
the occupational voice demands of teaching is presented here.
- The Acoustically Friendly and Unfriendly
Classrooms give you quick messages about how the physical features
of a classroom either ease or add to the teacher's vocal burden.
- The entrance/exit option on the map may be selected when you've successfully navigated all the rooms in the Voice Academy and are ready to graduate. A wrap-up page summarizes big themes, and a link takes you to a Voice Academy diploma.
How's your vocal health? (a quiz)
In-service tools (script and aids for in-service presentations)
Demonstration of how to use the Voice Academy
Text only (information in printer-friendly format)
Communicators' Media Kit (to raise awareness of the website)
Sponsorship/Project Team information
Audio vignette of a classroom teacher's
vocal overload
