Speaking+and+Writing+tools

[|AcapelaTV] - talking cards: choose an avatar and add your text. Similar to Voki.


 * Audacity**

AudioBoo

[|Breaking News in English] - listening skills, listen, learn and play.

[|BubbleJoy] allows you to create a video card and share it with others

[|elllo.org] - English Listening Lesson Library Online

[|English Central] - listen, speak, and get pronunciation feedback.

Google chat video and voice plug-in, igreat for rough drafts, a group work on a draft for a story, can be printed or copied and pasted into a Word doc.

MailVU - http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/speaking/index.html - allows your students to submit oral assignments. It's very simple and doesn't require creating accounts. What they need is a web camera which most of your students have on their laptops.

[|OneTrueMedia.com]is great to do presentations with sound and recording the voice. See an example here.


 * Podcast -** create your own broadcast, where you can easily record voice messages, mix in your favorite music, and share it all for the world to hear. Use it for School News, Book Reports, and speaking assignments.

[|Vocaroo] - record your voice and share with others. You will get a link or an embeded code. You don't need to create an account.

Voki

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[|Voxopop] is a tool to create online discussion talk groups. You can consider this tool as a forum that uses voice instead of text. Children can record their voices to discuss a particular topic, they can be asked to tell a continued story by recording their voices. This tool can be used as a listening activity.


 * Xtranormal** - use http://www.xtranormal.com for creating text to speech animated movies. See an example here.