Speaking Skills

I've tried the following webtools and I think they could be very useful to develop students' speaking and listening skills. Some ideas....

Fotobabble: students could use it to tell their teacher and classmates an interesting and funny experience or anecdote in connection with the picture. It may be part of an special task that could be done after the winter holidays or a long weekend to practise past continuous, simple past, vocabulary related to places, etc. A variation on this activity would be to exchange pictures with a classmate and record the audio according to what each student thinks his classmate was doing,

Listen to my Voki's opinion about Blabblerize...





Voki can be used to play a treasure hunt. The avatar (created either by the teacher or (a) student/s)would be in charge of giving the clues. The winner will be in charge of the following hunt. This is useful to practise giving directions or prepositions.