I tried and tried but I just could not figure out how to correctly embed this in my blog. I also tried MP3 files that I made from Vocaroo and the Online Voice Recorder. Each time either a blank audio loaded or it told me that I couldn’t use the MP3 for “security reasons”. Therefore, I am linking my favorite audio that I created using VOKI. I would love to use this video to greet my third graders each Monday morning to give them a preview of the upcoming week. The link is below.

https://tinyurl.com/y6n9exeq

Because I had a lot of trouble embedding any of the audio files, I ended up trying them all…many times! Even though I wasn’t successful at embedding them, I really liked them all. Here are my top 3 and how I would use them in a classroom:

1. VOKI–I really liked this website and thought it would be a great way to use it as a Monday Message in the classroom. I would post a quick message about the upcoming week and the kids would view it once they came into the classroom each Monday. I think my students would be excited to see which character, voice and background I would choose each week. It would give them an incentive to listen to the message about our upcoming week.
2. GOOGLE SLIDES TALKING CHARACTER–Even though I think this would be for a more advanced student, I thought this would be a great way to add some “pizzazz” to an otherwise typical Google Slides report. We often use Google Slides for reports on our Ancient Civilizations. I think the students would have fun with the talking character to give information about what they learned.
3. VOCAROO–This was a very easy to use voice recording website. I think it would be fun to use for a “Mystery Sounds Game”. For a brain break, you could play different sounds and let the students guess what it was. For academic purposes, this would also be an easy website to grab voice recordings and embed them in a book report in Google Slides.