30 second Narration of Pic with Qwips (Vocaroo still better)

Harlequin's Carnival

For quick annotation of images for students, about the only thing you could do for younger students is either make a movie with audio, narrate slides, or use Chrome's text to speech app and listen to a robot read it to them.  With Qwips, you can record a 30 second annotation for an image or passage on a web page or blog and Qwips will create a unique URL for your audio and then you can place it next to an image or a passage where you would like the students to be able to read it, but some words you know they will get stuck on.
I can see using Qwips for a lot of different things where I would like to add text for students to navigate a page or online activity or describe an art principle or process that an artist is using in a piece.  Look at the example of Harlequin's Carnival by Joan Miro.  Click on the link below it and listen as Mr. P. asks them to count the organic shapes in this painting.
I can also see using this for a passage that a teacher is trying to have the students read online, but knows that many of the words can be difficult.  Record the passage and add a link that says "listen" and link it to the Qwips URL to instantly stop having students say " what is this word?" and focus on the content of the instruction even more!
My only wish is that you could embed an audio player into the caption of a picture instead of the link moving you to another site.  Younger students will need some navigation help the first time, or you could use Vocaroo where you need no signup, and can embed the player (next to the link) into any blog or site.