Nik Peachey

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Yesterday on my Quick Shout blog, I wrote about a new tool called Xtranormal for creating text to speech animated movies. Since then I've had a little time to put together a tutorial video and think about how to use it in the classroom. First I thought I'd show you what extra normal produces. There is quite a range of characters and backgrounds so the possibilities for creating situational dialogues is terrific and you can also build these scenes into a series, so this would be great for longer

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Connecting 2 the World

OCTOBER 15, 2008

It’s BAD day (blog action day) around the world and this year’s action revolves around poverty. BAD is a day when privileged people like me, who have access to a computer and the internet, can add fuel to the (sadly only lukewarm it seems) debate on the haves and have nots, on privilege, social justice and responsibility. We sit down, we tap out our opinions, not without some guilt I suspect, as we sip a fresh-brewed coffee made from clean water.

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Nik Peachey

OCTOBER 23, 2008

For a long time now I've been fascinated with viral marketing campaigns and the way advertisers use these to promote their products. What's really interesting about them is the advertisers ability to come up with really novel and original ideas to capture our attention and make us want to share with others. My Fame Star is a great example of this and one that we can use to create lesson materials.

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Nik Peachey

OCTOBER 16, 2008

I have to admit that when I first saw Bubblr , I thought it was just a simple tool for adding speech and thought bubbles to images, but when I started to try it out I discovered that it can do far more than that. You can use Bubblr to search through Flickr images, then drag them onto an image line and create a long sequences of images with text /speech bubbles / thought bubbles etc.

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Connecting 2 the World

OCTOBER 12, 2008

Image via CrunchBase. Feeling slightly guilty … but only slightly. One of my Twitter followers is a schoolboy; we’re an eclectic lot here! His latest tweet, a minute or so after inquiring about the Genius function in iTunes, told us all that he was thanking the deity for headphones. They block out his ’stupid teacher.’ Yikes!

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Image via Wikipedia. I started the morning, as always, with a cup of coffee and a walk round the garden. Helps to get the head and heart going. Logged in then to check on the overnight emails, and remembered that this morning, John Cleese (yes he of Python fame) was to be a guest on Seesmic. It was 12noon PDT and 5am AEST here, so I jumped on line and caught a bit of the tallest Python being genial about life in America, what’s ‘wrong’ with it all (the legal system), and people

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Nik Peachey

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's something that's fun for the weekend and beyond. A site with a collection of image and gif generators that you can customise with your EFL ESL students and add their texts to. This is an example one I created with talking flowers giving a warning about the environment. The site also offers talking squirrels Talking cats And a few other things like tomatoes , owls and a wizard.

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