Fun and powerful ideas for Wixie's Talkies

Talkies are animated magic stickers that read text, read a text object, or play a recorded sound. 

Imagine an interview with an animal, or person from history, where the answers are animated responses or perhaps an element talking about how it acts when bonded with another element.

Students can add an existing talkie to a project or turn any image into a talkie, such as:




Click the sound button to see and hear an example of how talkies work.

A Talkie doesn't have to have a traditional mouth drawn on it. If your painted artwork, doesn't have a mouth, simply place the handles where you want it to be. If you want to personify an object, like the Liberty Bell, create a mouth in a place on the image that makes sense for a mouth. 


Talkie project ideas
Use the different ways talkies speak to meet the needs of different learners.

Older students can type text, or copy and paste from research and notes they have already recorded in a word processing file. For example, these students can use talkies to interview a figure from history.



The primary interface does not have a Widgets button on the toolbar, but these young learners can use an assignment that includes a talkie. You can use this to have them tell, retell, or adapt a story. 



At the start of school, you could have students use a talkie to share an important school rule or share ideas for being a great friend or classmate. Students can use a character from the Talkies library or add one of the mouths or faces to their own image or painted artwork they have created.

Lessons that include talkies have samples you can share with students before they begin work on the connected assignment. For example:


Many of the files in the Wixie Curriculum Activities and Design Templates libraries include talkies and you can always find an example or two in each Month-by-Month folder that ask students to:

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