{"id":1204,"date":"2014-06-19T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:46:22","slug":"chatterpix-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/chatterpix-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatterpix in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A new iOS app to blab about &#8212; literally!<\/h2>\n<p>Chatterpix is a free iOS app that allows you to put tiny mouths on your photos and give them silly voices. I am not making any of this up. Here&#8217;s one of a crab explaining facts about crustaceans:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/850BHEu-n3Q\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Cool things about Chatterpix:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Easy to use: choose a photo, draw a line for the mouth and record the message. Boom! Done.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need to create an account to use it<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s free<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re limited to 30 seconds of audio, thus focusing students on the essential elements of storytelling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are so many ways you could use this in an educational setting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have students animate a favorite photo of themselves with messages for a virtual exhibition &#8212; great for students with social anxiety issues around presenting;<\/li>\n<li>record the morning school announcements;<\/li>\n<li>create a map of a country and give each state it&#8217;s own voice;<\/li>\n<li>have students record bios of famous historical figures (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/mattbergman.net\/Index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Bergman<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Bios&#8221; could actually be recorded for just about anything that will hold still long enough: moss, trees, VW Vanagons, abacuses, graham crackers, more moss, just of a different kind. There&#8217;s something about the ability to give silly voices (along with glasses, top hats, scarves and electric guitars) to items and get into the storytelling groove that&#8217;s incredibly appealing.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that if I&#8217;d gotten to write dialogues for animated chemistry molecules, I&#8217;d&#8217;ve passed Chem on the first try:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHz2KlzjebA?list=UUgaYs9wDUGk3VibS3lDMU4g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As an educator, you could also record yourself giving instructions for a lesson; modeling that bio of a famous historical figure; create a map of a significant place in a book your class is reading and APP-SMASH: photos + Chatterpix + other photos + Thinglink = APP-SMASH! YES!<\/p>\n<p>Or you could just record dogs talking about which strand they&#8217;re taking at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/codecamp.tarrantinstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\">Code Camp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgjwCN1Bz_U?list=UUgaYs9wDUGk3VibS3lDMU4g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>What could you do with Chatterpix and your students?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new iOS app to blab about &#8212; literally! Chatterpix is a free iOS app that allows you to put tiny mouths on your photos and give them silly voices. I am not making any of this up. Here&#8217;s one of a crab explaining facts about crustaceans: Cool things about Chatterpix: Easy to use: choose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/chatterpix-in-the-classroom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chatterpix in the classroom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[142,151,24,32],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-we-like","tag-app-smash","tag-chatterpix","tag-chemistry","tag-digital-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}