Check this out! If you want to encourage your learners to write and speak English this is a great tool to do it, especially with younger learners and teenagers. Xtranormal.com is a site where you can choose backgrounds, characters, sounds, actions etc and make a movie either by recording your voice or by typing in text that is then read back by an automatic voiceover (in a range of accents). It's like Voki, but you can get a lot more elaborate! When you have made one, you can e-mail it, embed it, download it (interestingly), share it on Twitter, Facebook etc etc....
Here's an example:
ICT Blog movie
by: JGakonga
It's free to play with and to make your first couple of videos (they give you 300 points to start with) but you do have to pay after that - I think it's quite cheap, though, and the three or four free ones that you are allowed on a free log in may well be enough for most learners.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Web Based Collaboration Tools- 15! -All free!
This blog post has a really great range of web based tools that are all free with which you (and more importantly, your learners) can collaborate on-line, either in real time or asynchronously. There are a few here that you have probably heard of (Google docs, Skype) and another whole load that you probably haven't (Twiddla, Wet Paint, VYew). I have to confess that I haven't checked all of these out, but if you want learners to collaborate outside class, there are some very simple to use tools here, and they are all free.
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