Vokis in the Classroom

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I've just been playing around with a voki - quite entertaining really. I'm sure students would have a blast playing around with all the characters and voices!! They are fun, interactive, engaging and can be used to lift even the driest topic.
Some ideas for use of a voki in the classroom could be:
1. To use a voki to introduce a person they have been studying (e.g. artist, author, character in a book, politician, inventor).
2. For students with SLI who may have difficulty expressing themselves. They could set up a voki for use in an oral presentation (although the limitation here is the amount of words or speech you can use).
3. In LOTE subjects whereby students must write something in the language they are studying and then set up a voki using the speech option, not the type-in-text option.
4. For students to introduce themselves to other people around the world without showing their faces, but still having a "human" element. This would be great if they have blogs linked to other classrooms around the world.
5. As mentioned in the voki, they can be used by teachers to introduce a topic.
6. Teachers could use them in online classrooms if they don't want to do their own video. Might help personalise the online classroom.
Good simple fun. Just need to be creative in their use so that they can improve teaching instruction as well as help students meet their learning goals.