Getting creative with Voicethread

http://voicethread.com/share/1591997/

 A quick play with Voicethread here. Upload photos or pictures; record webcam or audio content. Create a story; interpret a poem; respond to pictures ....

Just experimenting with the embed code ...




I like this example from a younger learner setting http://voicethread.com/#q.b119840.i725907

An L1 example but note how a class can post within one Voicethread; you can navigate to display all or choose a particular one; comments appear left and right of the display screen.

See also this rationale for Voicethread as a rehearsal area for speaking practice http://voicethread.com/community/library/Language_learners_use_VoiceThread_to_practice_speaking/

Voicethread in a minute http://voicethread.com/?#u1529811.b8381.i61448

Xtranormal online text to speech movies

This looks like an application along the lines of Voki but more flexible to produce longer pieces and specifically work on dialogues. Learners write dialogues and the application uses text to speech technology to convert to the movie clips.
This URL takes you to a sample and a Spanish as a FL teacher's thoughts on its use along with some useful perspectives of others who have commented.
Box of Tricks: Xtranormal

There is also a link to further examples on the school website (examples in Spanish as a FL) Nottingham High School. Notice it has blogging features so learners can react to each others' work.

Xtranormal is herehttp://www.xtranormal.com/
Diane

Embedding video clips

You will see that I have embedded clips from YouTube in some of the postings rather than linked to the source page. This displays the clip on your blog page.

To do this, when you find a clip, you will find to the right of your screen both the URL and the embed code. Copy the embed code and paste into your message. In this way you can provide links to clips and tasks for your learners within messages.