The software enables y'all to tape your ain well monologues together with lip-sync them amongst a choice of animated talking heads. It together with therefore turns them into pocket-size Flash files which tin endure run inwards a spider web browser. These tin endure lay on the Internet, run shape your reckoner desktop, or the Flash files tin fifty-fifty endure delivered to mobile phones.
Here’s an instance that I created using a Sonnet (130) yesteryear William Shakespeare. (You’ll demand to cause got the well o your reckoner turned up)
Click hither to come across an example
Use the pocket-size controls on the correct to terminal together with replay the audio.
What I similar nearly this software, apart from the novelty value, is Flipz creates quite pocket-size files. You could easily electronic mail the file to students amongst to a greater extent than or less instructions therefore they could heed at abode or inwards a self access lab. Or lay them on their telephone or mobile device. You could brand to a greater extent than or less actually useful homework tasks for them. The students could fifty-fifty download the software onto their computers at abode together with do their ain materials to direct to class.
Creating something similar this is really easy. Just click through the v steps on the interface.
- The offset pace is to select the grapheme y'all desire from a possible viii talking heads (two come upwardly amongst the criterion download of the software together with y'all tin download to a greater extent than or less other viii yesteryear registering)
- You together with therefore type or re-create together with glue inwards the text that y'all desire the animated caput to read.
- You together with therefore either import your well file or tape your own
- Then only click a push clitoris together with the software generates your well grapheme together with synchronises the spoken language to the text
- You tin the either preview or complete your project. The software generates an html page amongst the talking caput embedded inwards it.
You tin scout this brusk tutorial moving-picture exhibit to come across precisely how slow it is.
Tutorial movie (Flash 523k)
Here are to a greater extent than or less ideas for combining this into your teaching.
- Record brusk poems or stories for the students to heed to
- Record to a greater extent than or less natural language twisters for the students to heed to together with practice
- Get students to gain together with tape their ain tidings reports
- Get students to tape an imaginary daily diary for i of the characters
- Get students to tape imaginary problems for a work page. They tin together with therefore heed to each other’s problems together with tape to a greater extent than or less advice
- You or your students could tape a vocal or import a vocal well file together with add together the words
You tin download Flipz for gratuitous from: http://www.flipz.tv/
It’s nearly 3.15Mb therefore it shouldn’t cause got to long to download, together with therefore precisely unzip the file together with install it. It exclusively runs on PC (sorry MAC users)
Click hither to come across how Flipz would await on a telephone or PDA
Flipz on phone
If y'all purpose Flipz or cause got whatsoever expert ideas for how to exploit it, yesteryear all agency post them inwards the comments below.
Best
Nik Peachey
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