Chatterpix

I totally love this app by Duck Duck Moose!  It's free, versatile, fabulously fun, humorous, and engaging.  What more could you ask for?  

This app allows students to turn pictures into talking pictures.  It's so easy, too.  Students either take a picture with their devices or important one from a camera roll.  Students draw a face and then begin recording with a 30 second time allotment.  Students can add backgrounds, frames, text, and accessories such as hats, glasses, wigs, etc.  Videos can be saved to use for different projects or can be exported.  Again, this app is free and students do not need to create an account to use it.

This app has been super popular with nearly all of our speech-language groups.  Here is a quick run down of how we use it in our room.

Articulation - We like to use this app with both independent and partner work. Students listen and rate their speech production or have friends do the same.  We also use this app for homework.  We give students word or sentence lists to practice, record their speech at home as either themselves or as a favorite character, and then bring it back for our next session.  (They've become quite creative with using a variety of character voices!)  

Summarizing - This learning target is so difficult for students, but this app helps so, so much.  Students are only able to speak for 30 seconds, so they must be short and concise (unless, of course, they are fast talkers!).

Story Retell - Similar to summarizing, students retell stories or real-life events.  We pair this app with Story Grammar Marker®.  Providing visual and tactile supports have been very successful with our students.

Fluency - We currently work with a handful of students who have a difficult time identifying their own moments of stuttering.  This app allows for students to analyze short speech sample recordings.  This app also works well for students to practice fluency-enhancing techniques.

Here is an example of how we have used this app in our room for summarizing.

We'd love to hear how use this app with your students.  Please share with us!