Blabberize


 * Title: Blabberize**

Description: Online software for creating "talking" images. Upload a photo or image, add a "mouth", record or upload an audio file and the image "talks"!

Publisher/Manufacturer: Blabberize

Link: [|http://www.blabberize.com]

Pricing information: free

Application to the classroom
 * NETS*S**
 * **Creativity and Innovation** || * Upload an image such as a historical figure, then record a biography for the figure to blabberize. Students could also draw their own images and upload into blabberize.
 * Application is endless in the classroom. Some samples I've seen are blabberizing hurricances talking about hurricanes in first person, Captain Jack Sparrow blabberizing about the ecosystem of islands in the Carribean, a leopard blabberizing about the continent of Africa, and a student-drawn image of a character from a book blabberizing about the story they are in. ||
 * **Communication and Collaboration** || * Publish and share student blabberizes through email or posting into a blog, website, or wiki.
 * Students can work collaboratively to create a blabberize ||
 * **Research and Information Fluency** || * Students research information to support their blabberize. ||
 * **Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making** || * Students decide upon which images are appropriate for the application.
 * Students create a written piece to record. ||
 * **Digital Citizenship** || * Students should be expected to only record materials that is appropiate.
 * Products can be kept private and only viewable in the users portfolio ||
 * **Technology Operations and Concepts** || * authentic use of software and hardware to produce a digital media product ||

**NETS*T**

Students perform many higher level thinking skills, such as remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, and creating animated characters. || Rather than give a traditional summative test at the end of the unit, assess students holistically on how they applied the content taught on Blabberize. || Blabberize is an ideal site to use with your students to practice effective communication skills. || This is a site that can push the envelope for inappropriateness. There is a teachable moment in rights and responsibility when creating in a digital world. ||
 * **Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity** || // Advance Student Learning //
 * **Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Environments** || // Digital-Age Assessments //
 * **Model Digital Age Work and Learning** || // Communication //
 * **Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility** || // Digital Etiquette //
 * **Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership** ||  ||