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Inventory of ICT tools and open educational resources

Welcome to the inventory of freely available online tools and open educational resources for language teaching and learning developed by the ICT-REV project! The inventory contains a list of tools that have been evaluated with specific criteria in mind. Read more
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This tool was developed within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the European Centre for Modern Languages and the European Commission

Blabberize

Principal function(s): Audio recording

Blabberize makes it possible "to speak" through a picture. Users can upload pictures and select any area of it to be set as the "mouth". This "mouth" moves and acts like a real mouth while the recorded voice is played. Evaluation: A simple, user-friendly, creative, and fun-to-use tool. Teachers can use Blabberize to encourage students to speak since it may be less threatening and more fun to speak through a cartoon. With its creative visuals, this tool could be very engaging for primary and secondary school students. Very basic IT skills are required for its use.

Cost: Free without registration + paid options

Website: https://blabberize.com/

  

Categories

Type Of Interaction

  • Presenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling)

Skills

  • Speaking

Content

  • You supply

Usability

Interface User-friendliness/complexity of the tool´s interface

Simple, user-friendly

Time efficiency Time needed for mastering the „how-to“ of the tool and a production of a task

High

Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to

English

Respect for privacy Does the tool require registration? Who can see my data? Can I remain anonymous?

Medium. Blabberize collects cookies and shares information with third parties for purposes of marketing and advertising, although it claims to collect only the information necessary to provide its services. Blabberize emphasizes security but it does not go into detail about the specific security measures in place. It does not elaborate upon user consent or control over data. Nevertheless, it complies with GDPR. See here. For another assessment, refer to this privacy evaluation.

Saving work for future use Possiblity to save your or others´ work for reuse/reproduction

Yes

Tailorability (If so, how?) Possibility of the tool to be used for a range of different activities (e.g. to what extent you can organize a project assignment with a central activity based on this tool)

Medium. It is tailorable to the extent that any image can be used and any part of it be selected as the mouth.

Interactivity

Engagement

Collaboration

Communication

Technical requirements

Installation required?

No

Compatibility/ Operating System

Windows, Mac, Linux

Other technical requirements

microphone, speakers

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Content
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Playphrase (Tool to find the pronunciation of words from movies )

Playphrase is a tool that searches specific words or phrases out of movie snippets from a database of audiovisual media with over 60,000 phrases. In this manner, it provides real-life examples of words’ and sentences’ pronunciation. Users just have to type specific phrases, watch them being used naturally in context within popular movies and TV shows, and listen to their pronunciation. Playphrase works mainly with English. Playphrase is not open-source, but it is freely available. It does not require setting up an account or signing in. ... View details

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