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Useful for having students record oral presentations to be reviewed / assessed

A list of apps (including apps for ipad, chromebooks, android, laptops) for audio recording and editing. Useful for student projects involving audio - e.g. pronunciation or recorded speech.

Description The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store. Ideal for children's picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. * The no. Students can create their own e-book using video, photos and sound and they can add in voice.By making it possible for students to record their own voices gives them a chance to play back what they have heard and, if necessary, re-record their work with corrections (self-editing). It is also different to standing in front of the classroom to present their work, which for some students is confronting.

Speaking and listening exercises and activites for ESL and TEFL. Easily create exercises online and give individualized attention. An online portal that allows ESL/EFL teachers to create interactive speaking and listening exercises for students to complete and submit remotely. Using peripheral or embedded laptop microphones, students record themselves speaking the exercises you provide, and their results are saved on the site for you to listen to and grade. Teachers have the opportunity record "solutions" to the exercise in their own voices, and a feature of the site allows you to provide personalized feedback to each student on each exercise.

Voki is a FREE service that lets you create customized speaking characters. Students can use avatars to use in their dialogues. They can record their voice or type in the text in a range of languages and the avatar will speak. This site can assist students with pronunciation although the vice is computerized.

Description 30hands Mobile is a fun, innovative storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create narrated stories or presentations based on photos, images, drawings or video clips using an iPad, iPhone or iPod. Different from other presentation apps, 30hands Mobile focuses on the power of storytelling and ITERATIVE CREATIVITY(TM). This can be used to create a narrated slide show using photos. Students can take their own photos and then add in an avatar to narrate in target language. Students can record their own voice. This would be good to use with photos from an excursion or a guest speaker.

This site contains hundreds of pre-recorded monologues and discussions on an enormous variety of topics, geared to English speakers at six distinct levels of skill from beginner to advanced. ELLLO recruits speakers from more than 60 countries, helping you introduce your students to a variety of different English accents, and some exercises contain comprehension games as learning aids. The lessons come in video as well as audio formats and can be sorted by topic, skill level or speaker's home country. This site provides students of English language with free listening, reading, and vocabulary practice.