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Turn your phone into a Madonna mike for free



I mentioned "madonna miking" as a potential option. You can buy a set up on Amazon.


But perhaps even better (if you are willing to fuss around a little bit) is one of the various "microphone to bluetooth" apps. I use apple, and spend about half an hour trying different ones until I found one called Bluetooth Loudspeaker (purplish icon). This works reasonably well. You bluetooth it to a speaker and away you go. The voice is not extremely natural sounding, but it tried out a lecture on Derrida and Bourdieu while wearing a mask, and my "audience" (someone who has never heard of these people) was able to understand me very clearly.


So . . . that's gonna be one of my solutions. Too bad there aren't bluetooth-ready speakers in every classroom, but at least you control everything yourself.


Cindy Patton

Professor of Sociology and Anthropology


The lands on which we live and work are the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations.