Chat robots - practising conversation

This is my second post about chat robots. I was reminded of them by Ozge Karaoglu during a presentation and decided to have a second look at them.

Of course chat robots can never replace f2f interaction, but using chat robots in class or showing them so that students try them out at home can be quite fun.



This is a chat robot (Maggie) created by
Cartoon EnglishTV

You type in the questions and you can read and hear Maggie answer them.





Morpheus is another good robot to try.








Athena is another chat robot which moves her lips as she speaks.



Nik Peachey has posted a lesson plan using a chat robot site called Virsona. The difference is that you can chat to the virtual characters of famous people in the past. Nik's lesson plan.


Another bot suggested by Susana Canelo
http://lauren.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f6d4afd83e34564d

Chat Robots

After reading about it in Larry´s blog I decided to try the chat robots and see how my students would feel if they tried it. It´s quite interesting and fun. You just start typing a question and the girl interacts with you. You can see the words and hear the girl speaking as well. Try it out here http://cartoonenglish.tv/Chat.html

You can find a list of other chat bots at this list taken from EFL classroom 2.0