WikiAnswers is a website where ask-and-answer gain another meaning - you just ask whatever you want to know, and they will show you lots of possibilities of answers for that question.
For example:
Question:
How to teach toddler to speak?
Answer:
Just talk to the toddler like an adult. explain things over and over again. help them make complete sentences. just help them with everything.
With Gizmoz, you can make your own 3D character, add voice, text and even videos to it. This is a great resource to make your students produce oral language, socialize and have fun! You can use celebrities'faces and voices, or even text-to-speech if you don't want to use your own. After that, you can embed, upload, share.... Your students will love it!
Watch this clip, made by a public user;
Magmypic allows you to create magazine covers with your own pictures. The best way to work with these magazines is to create a writing task, a PROJECT ("The Magazine Project", for example), asking students to get in groups of 3 or 4 and write 3 or 4 articles about the topic of the magazine they have chosen (give them 2 or 3 weeks so they can do it at home - remember: it's a project for the semester). Every class, you can help them with correction and feedback about the content of the articles using the final 15" of the class. Tell them that, besides writing the articles, they will choose one article (the one they enjoyed the best)to make an oral presentation with (tell them not to worry - they will only retell the class what they have written). Encourage them to interview people, and display something nice for the class at the day of the presentation. This way, you can give them their final marks (or extra points) for writing and for oral production (everybody in the group has to speak!)
This is a sample cover I've made with my own picture:
Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com
Read the Words.com
Readthewords has a text-to-speech function. You can create avatars and embed them on your webpage, or download them. For the free membership, you can only create and share 3 voiced avatars.
This is the one I've created:
Sing your Text!
In SingYourText site, you can write your text in a box, click play, and the site sings the text for you. Very funny, and also very useful for students to improve their listening skills. One activity I suggest using SingYourText is: divide the class in groups (after rolemodeling the exercise) and give them 10" to 15" to write a song about some topics YOU will have assigned them on the board, and that they will choose. It could be "love", "school", etc. Each group cannot show the other what they have written. After that, open the website, ask the first group to come to the computer and ask the others to keep their back to the board (if it's a smart board), but warn them that they have to keep their ears wide open. Then tell them they should jot down the words they hear. The group that gets more right words, wins the game.
Nice Story Maker
This is an excellent story maker (the best I could find, since it generates longer and more contextualized texts) from the session LearnEnglish Kids, from BBC website.
There, you can choose a fairy story, a horror story, or a science fiction story. You should wait for the storymaker to load, then answer the questions - choose the characters, words and places or write your own! Then the story maker will 'make' your story - you can print it too!
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