Voki
Voki is a tool which creates speaking avatars for users. Voki Classroom is specifically designed for the use of teachers and students and can be used in a number of ways. For class, I created this voki to introduce myself at the beginning of the semester.
The only trouble I had the voki was getting the microphone tool to work; however, voki has a "call in" option, so I was able to record my message over the phone. I thought I would have already used this for my students (and I did make another one for my English 11 students), but I found the time restrictions for each voki to be too limiting, and I had some issues embedding them into different sites (although I clearly made it work for this one!)
To hear my voki introduction, click here, or simply hit play on the embedded image below.