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A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages - 0 views

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shared by Antonio Amores Ortiz on 12 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages
  • with  more sophisticated technology, another theory around language learning is being tested: the use of avatars to practice speaking.
  • Companies like Second Life and Middlebury Interactive Languages both offer digital avatar programs to give language learners a chance to practice their skills in virtual environments.
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  • Teachers and students can give their character a voice by using one of three methods: text to speech, recording by microphone, or uploading their own pre-recording audio file. Voki characters can speak in over 25 languages, and 150-plus voices, according to Eric Kiang, Voki’s Product and Marketing Manager.
  • Antonio Amores Ortiz on 12 Nov 13
     
    Using Avatars to add voice and character to learning language
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Bitstrips Creates Comic Strips For Facebook - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/ic-strips-for-facebook-2013-10

digital storytelling comic facebook edtech

shared by Antonio Amores Ortiz on 10 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • How You Can Create Those Personalized Comic Strips That Are Popping Up All Over Facebook
  • How You Can Create Those Personalized Comic Strips That Are Popping Up All Over Facebook
  • they're using Bitstrips, an app that lets you create an avatar version of yourself and your friends and put them in a cartoon strip that you can share with your social network.
  • Antonio Amores Ortiz on 10 Nov 13
     
    create comic to use in class assignment
  • Antonio Amores Ortiz on 10 Nov 13
     
    create comic to use in class assignment 
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