This assignment was fun! I started by following Jake Miller’s tutorial on creating a chatterbox avatar using google slides. Then I had to screen cast it and record the audio. I used a free version of camtasia so it has the ugly water mark over the middle of it, but I was able to embed it even though I was not interested in paying for this program. This was a lot of work, but I really like the outcome because it feels like it represents me really well.
I played around with a few of the other voice recording programs and it seemed like to embed you almost always needed a paid account to unlock that feature. I used Voki to make this elephant, but since I do not have a paid subscription I can’t embed him in my blog. It was MUCH easier to create the elephant and record a voice over using Voki than making my avatar talk on google slides. I can also see how kids would be more excited about a talking elephant! If I was teaching students to do this type of voice recording, I think I would start with Voki because it is extremely user friendly.
I tried out Vocaroo as well. It was very easy to record and then link to the voice recording here: View on Vocaroo >>