Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL

Learning technology teacher development blog: Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL

Another Nik Peachy winner. This guy does the legwork so I don't have to :)

Here he reviews a text to speech movie service called Xtranormal. The result is really quite cool. What is the use of this? I would like to use it for students who don't feel comfortable doing the parts themselves. I would also love to do it to act out dialogues from class (either ones from the book or student-generated).

Take a look at the service and Nik's review.

Online Video Industry Index

Interested in online video. Here is a resource provided by the Read/WriteWeb blog that can take you beyond a basic Google search.

Business 2.0: 50 People who matter

Business 2.0: 50 People who matter

I think that this is amazing, though understandable coming from Business 2.0. They rank the user (they call you the consumer) as the #1 person who matters in tech business.

Imagine the paradigm shift that had to take place for this to be true. The user as publisher (blogs) movement (also referred to as read/write Web or Web 2.o) has really changed the way that us common folks are viewed.

This is the same movement that will change the expectations your students have for their future learning environments. Individualized, responsive, and generally dynamic. Get ready for it now :)