Voki is one of my favourite educational resources that I wanted to highlight and share in more detail with other educators.
Voki is a free service that lets you create a talking avatar to help students share their learning. The other excellent feature is that it can then be embedded onto a blog or Wikispace like this:
Voki gives you as a teacher the opportunity to engage students in any topic area through a simple to use and free resource available anytime and anywhere for almost any purpose.
I have used Voki’s with students from age 5-13 and they ALL love it and on many occasions I have had students go home and show parents and use them on their own personal blogs or wiki’s.
I have used Voki’s for:
- Getting students to share their learning
- Getting feedback from students
- Getting students to add a more human feel to their blog or wiki
- Foreign language speakers to express views and opinions easier
- Engaging and hooking students into a subject or topic
- Interacting with students on a global level (e.g. quad blogging)
- Practising and listening to their presentations (e.g. pronunciation)
- Much, much more …..
I highly recommend you to give Voki a go – let your students have a play (with a goal in mind) and I guarantee they will come up with something amazing!
I would LOVE to see what you, your students and your colleagues do with Voki to support and encourage the learning process so please feel free to contact me:
Twitter: @mrkempnz
Email: mrkempnz@gmail.com
Voki gives you as an instructor to be able to get learners in any subject area through a easy to use and free source available at any time and anywhere for almost any objective.
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