I created my first speaking avatar with Voki in Week
11 and that was a fun experience.
To customise your avatar, you have to first sign up
for a Voki account. There are many options for you to choose until you can find
your ideal face, hair style, mouth, colour, background and more. I wrote a
message and picked one of the computer voice so my avatar can speak!
For educational purposes, you can use Voki to create
a lesson and post on onto your website, blog post or upload to youtube. I guess
this is a cool way to present your lesson rather than just standing in front of
your students and talk.
I also got inspired by Glenda Funk, an English
teacher from the United State, as she has some good ways to use Voki and I think they
are interesting ideas. In a nutshell, to teach and learn nowadays… you got to
be “CREATIVE”!
here are Glenda Funk's ideas to use Voki in the classroom.
1. In multigenre inquiry projects
2. As a way to promote participation in class discussions.
3. As a way for teachers to give instructions or reinforce a concept, particularly for absent students.
4. As a lecture students view in a flipped classroom setting.
5. Etc. I'm sure these ideas only begin to touch on the possibilities.
2. As a way to promote participation in class discussions.
3. As a way for teachers to give instructions or reinforce a concept, particularly for absent students.
4. As a lecture students view in a flipped classroom setting.
5. Etc. I'm sure these ideas only begin to touch on the possibilities.
Glenda Funk, July, 21, 2013, Creating Classroom
Conversations Using Voki [Lesson Idea], available at,
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