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1) Voicethread ** Voicethread is a Web 2.0 application that teachers and students can use collaboratively. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and video and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

 
 * What can students do with Voicethread?**
 * be in touch with their e-pals;
 * have group conversations and discussions around images, documents, and videos;
 * comment on each other's work;
 * do speaking and pronunciation tests;
 * and make book and film reviews,among other uses.

**2)** **Voxopop** (adapted from //Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers//, by Nik Peachey

Voxopop is a web-based audio tool that enables users to record their speaking for others to listen and respond to. It allows teachers and students to build up threaded audio discussions online. Voxopop allows for real communicative speaking and listening practice outside the classroom, and it makes assessing language and pronunciation problems very easy. It also produces a ʻ feed ʼ, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> which means that students can subscribe to the feed and then automatically be updated on their computer or mobile phone when new messages are added.


 * What can students do with Voxopop?**

> of the text for other students to listen to; > leave questions to find out which of the statements are true. The teacher can leave his/her answers to the questions online, too. In class the teacher can get the students to say which statements are true or false. They can also create their own true false statements and question each other about them. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> Enter this link to see a discussion on Voxopop: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ES; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: ES;">**Which tools do you use with your students?**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Give their opinions and make comments on statements and prompts recorded by their teacher;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ES;">listen to the first sentence of a narrative recorded by the teacher and add a sentence to the story;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ES;">practise dictation by writing down the lines of a text recorded by the teacher. They can record their own version
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ES;">listen to pronunciation drills recorded by the teacher and record themselves saying the words or sentences;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ES;">ask questions about statements; the teacher records some statements about himself/herself and has students