Young learners producing vokis

This is a blog for young learners of French as a foreign language. Here they produce their own vokis. The 'voices' are not their own but those of the 'synthesised' selections you can choose from. So rather than the learners recording orally, then type in the text for it to be 'read' by the synthesised voice.

Young learner vokis

In French but transferable to Engish as a FL. The blog is clearly a space to which learners post their vokis for others to share and this seems to be a common use of blogs - more than a collaborative space as such perhaps? Maybe worth thinking about their affordances with these particular aims in mind - teacher blog, class blog, individual blog; task management, sharing, collaboration...

Social networking

A Teachers' TV clip demonstrating ideas for social networking in the teaching of foreign languages:
Twitter in Spanish;
e-Twinning project;
Vokis;
wikis;
Voicethread

Social networking in language teaching

As you watch:
find out about technologies you are unfamiliar with;
how does the teacher respond to questions about privacy and security.

Voki characters on blog

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See Voki.com

Although easy to use, you can check out instructions on Anne Foreman's blog on encouraging autonomy - worth browsing beyond this entry too! Another tool that can she provides instruction about is Animoto