This free tool allows you to add images, icons, text and also your own short videos to your slides. The images and icons can be those which you search for, from within the app, or you can use your own. You can then talk for up to 10 seconds about each of the slides, (default is 2 secs but it will change as you talk) thereby making a video, recording your voice as you narrate through each of the slides. You can also add music to your video from within the app or upload your own background music, and change the duration that each slide is shown.
When you are ready, you can download your video as an mp4 and share that to whomever you wish to, or share your video to the world through a web-link.
For learners who find it hard to start, there are some excellent templates and examples to be used. I think this application would be awesome for young learners, who are growing their oral language skills. Talking about their artwork is a great place to start.
I can see a lot of other applications for older learners as well, including making a "call to action" if you want your learners to become involved in a special project, or sharing findings from a field trip or science project. Or to prepare your learners for speeches. Let them practice away through their visual prompts.
If you use the media search to find images or music, the credits will automatically be included, which gives learners a great opportunity to talk about digital citizenship as well.
Providing guidelines for your learners may be really useful, for example, providing structure to the task through limiting the number of slides, or the total time for the video and asking for a certain number of key points, or certain vocabulary to be used. Limited to your imagination!
Here is a short video that I made demonstrating the use.
Try the online or the ipad app soon to help develop oral language.
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