Blabberize

The students narrated a "trip" that our gym teacher and librarian agreed to "travel". They "traveled" throughout ancient Egypt and stopped and explained about many different historical sights in Egypt, which were narrated by our students. Here is an example of a Blabberize that one of my students created. This is our gym teacher and he went to...well, let's let "him" tell you. media type="file" key="RoBr.mpg" If you want to see all of them, you can go to my school webpage, where I am pretty sure you can see them all. If you are having trouble, let me know!

My classroom webpage

To Blabberize, you have to go to their website and set up an account. About ten students could log into one account at once--but each account is free, so setting up several wasn't too challenging. Once you create your free account(s) you can play and see what you like, what you don't like and how to do it. It takes only a few seconds to figure it out, as the website walks you through. You can use pictures of famous people and have the student Blabberize their "autobiography" or you can do some more work and use GIMP or Photoshop to green screen the people, like our gym teacher and librarian. Once you do that, you can use KidPix to have the students themselves pick a background and add the people to the picture as a sticker. Pretty cool really. Of course, as I said, you can avoid all that technology and simply use pictures of people already there.

To post the Blabberize, just click the Share It! button and copy the html code and put it wherever you want to post it. Or you can copy and paste the link they provide on that same Share It! page. They also have a download this video which is currently free. Once you download this file, you do have to delete the last part of the tag, so it reads mpg and it works just fine!

Blabberize