App of the Week

ChatterPix Kids 

ChatterPix Kids is a Free App that can make anything talk. It's a very easy app to use. You simply take a photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. 

Watch this short movie, that shows you just how simple it is to use.

I'm sure you guys can think of lots of educational uses for this app, but here are a few I would like to suggest.

In science when students have to investigate paper and its properties.  One of the investigations is to write on two different types of paper and then talk about which was easier/harder to write on and why. The students could take photos of the paper and add voices to the photos explaining their observations.

To extend this activity, the movie created in ChatterPix can be used as an overlay in the Aurasma App and be attached to a trigger image, that when scanned the paper will come to life explaining its own properties.

The app has its uses in MFL and in Arabic, where objects can come to life and say what they are, it makes learning about objects fun and exciting.

I usually test apps out on my son, to see if their user friendly enough? so this is what he produced when I let him have a go. 

Please comment and perhaps share your ideas on the blog of how this app could be used as a teaching and learning tool, I would love to hear more ideas.