Micnote App for Chromebook: Could We Use This For Student Responses/Opinions in Hislish?

Today I am testing out the Micnote Chromebook App to see if we can use it in Hislish. Our possible goal with this app is to have students provide reflections or opinions of essential questions, current events, On This Day in History for the week,etc.  In the long term, we would like to then move our students towards podcasting on a weekly or monthly basis.  Students could pick their own podcasting topic as long as the topic was related to something taught/studied in Hislish class.

Personally, I became interested in pursuing this idea of having students produce audio comments after doing the Hislish Yearbook assignment for the last two years. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to students voicing their own opinion and actually hearing it from their own lips, so to speak.  I also enjoy having students produce their own audio comments because it forces them to once again work on verbalizing their thoughts, which I believe students do not do very much with the advent of texting on cell phones.  Students struggle to speak out loud and voice their thoughts.  I also like the idea of audio comments because it maybe causes less anxiety than actually standing up and speaking in front of the class.  Some of our students are more introverted.  This option of audio comments might help these students to ease into the concept of verbalizing their thoughts.

Micnote is an app for use on Chromebook that allows students to make a quick audio comment, save it as an MP3 file, and then students also have option of immediately syncing that file with their Google Drive.  I love this option because students can immediately click a button and have that audio file go to their drive and then they can share that audio file with us, the teachers.  Students struggle with conversions of files and uploading, so the fact that they can get it to their drive with one click is a HUGE plus for us in Hislish.
Hislish students are on their drive and in their email on a daily basis for our class, so having this option is essential to ease of use and success of this possible assignment.

Now, I am further interested in seeing if the audio file can be inserted into a blog post on a student blog.  This would then allow students to add written comments and images to complement their audio comments and help complete their opinion or reflection. So, I am now going to see if I can insert my test audio comment that I made on Micnote earlier today.  I had it sent to my Google Drive and now I am going to post it to this post to see how easily I can complete the task.

Note: I attempted to upload the audio file from my drive to this blog post.  I walked away and came back in 5 minutes and still it was not uploaded to the blog.  So, uploading it to a student blog will probably not be an option.