The voki, available at http://www.voki.com/ , is a great audio tool. It is an interactive animation that can be cued to say whatever its creator desires.
Also, you can design your character from a range of faces, clothes, background and much more to be visually suitable.
The voki can adopt the user's own voice by downloading specific audio or it can draw from a bank of a range of accents, with the dialogue typed in.
It is a valuable tool which can be used to scaffold learners otherwise challenged by the written text.
It could be used for student based learning tasks, issuing instrucions, reading maths problems, reading stories and a multitude of other ways to engage students.
I also identified the engagement potential of Voki as I explored it's various features. The benefits of the student engagement that would result from the students being able to follow instructions from a comical computer character is undeniable.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your use of Voki as a literacy tool, this would be highly beneficial in allowing students to hear what they have written or perhaps script their understandings to share with their peers.
I was talking a friend about Voki's and we both agreed that Voki's can be used for an ice-breaking tool. It can help students (especially the young ones) to know each other. It's great because some students have low social skills and by making a Voki and sharing it around the class students can to get to know a little about each other.
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