Shavua Tov. Gosh this is a familiar situation- late Motzash, getting up in a few hours and cramming h/w that i coulda/shoulda/woulda done days ago...

Well the topic for the week is using technology creatively in order to create listening/speaking exercises. Seeing as the blogs that I follow have not been updated since I visited a few days ago I'm going to blab about the tools we have been happily exposed to this week. whoop.

I just want to put it out there that the lady who pronounced the Letter Sounds in the tab "listening to sounds" made me cringe and i had to turn it off after hearing "A". thank-you for letting me get that off my chest.

i think the TTS software- sounds like a fantastic idea for all students and especially those with learning difficulties who do better hearing instructions/materials/etc.

oh and i came across www.voki.com and although it seemed familiar and therefore made me worry that perhaps we learnt about it last week and i already forgot in which case i'm making a fool of myself ;), i found it to be quite an entertaining option for use in the efl classroom. unfortunately past 9pm my creative juices run dry so i couldn't think of some fantabulous use for this tool but a quick search came up with some options such as using it for creating stories or even for creating online characters for pupils...me thinks this has lots of potential.

well then i'm signing off for now- have a good one folks