Build Your Ottogram allows you to design your own otter, including clothing, headgear, and sunglasses, and then have him/her say what you want him/her to say (through a text-to-speech feature). You can email the url, and then have it posted on a website.
I don’t know where they come up with this stuff, but it’s great for English Language Learners.
I’ve place the link on my Examples of Student Work page under…..Student Talking Otters.
Here is another site that lets you do something similar.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/Default.aspx?cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=2f0e5cb1b68741fab58f37f8af27082a-237337964-J0-5
Thanks for the suggestion. It’s also on my Examples of Student Work page under “Student Monkey Emails” (http://www.bayworld.net/ferlazzo/Student%20Work.html#monkey).