Web Tools for Speaking Skills!

Sometimes, when we want to have our students develop speaking skills, we find it difficult to set an attractive and motivating context for them. Here are some web tools that may provide learners with a funny and appealing way of practising speaking without been aware of it!

Blabberize: For instance, we could use this web tool in a 1st year of secondary school group. Intermediate level.
The idea is that students choose an object meaningful for them take, a picture of it. Then, they should write one paragraph from the point of view of the object saying why they beleive they are important, describing their relationship with their owner, etc.
The teacher will check the paragraph and give feedback on it. Now, students are ready to record the paragraph using this web tool and upload both the photo and the recording to the class platform.
In order to encourage a report stage, students will be assigned to check on two classmates' productions and comment on them in class.
http://blabberize.com/

Voxopop: This web tool could be used, for instance, with a 6th form group. Pre-Intermediate level.
What students will be instructed this time is to work on a collaborative story writing.
The teacher provides each group a different title for the story. (the class will be divided in groups of 5 people, ideally).
Each student is supposed to write a part of the story at home and then bring it to the lesson for the teacher to check. Once it's been corrected, the next student takes it home to write part 2 and so on.
When the story is finished, they record it using voxopop and they add pictures to illustrate each part.
http://www.voxopop.com/

Present.me: This web tool could be used with a 5th form group of students- Upper-Intermediate level.
Students are asked to create a presentayion regarding their future course of studies using "Present.me".
The teacher will give some guidelines as regards what information should be included in the presentation, such as articles related to their subject-matter, etc.
If it is a small group the presentations could be shown in class and discuss which seems to be the best / most creative one.
https://present.me/content/