Creating a Voki
Hi all, let us talk about voki to day. Voki is a useful tool
in language teaching and learning. It is built with an imaginary character
called Avatar. By creating an Avatar through Voki, we can make students
learning enjoyable. Let us see how to make voki in the following video.
How to create a voki
How to publish a voki in a blog
After you finish saving the voki, you can publish it by clicking on the "publish your Voki' button under the voki screen. Copy the code from the box appeared, open the blog screen, position the cursor where you want to insert the voki, go to HTML option beside Compose and paste the code there. Go to preview option and check the preview. The following voki has been inserted in the same way.
How to use voki in teaching
Voki helps in technology enhanced learning. It promotes creativity in teaching and learning. It helps in assessment, giving feedback, engages students in varieties of presentations, stimulates learning by creating imaginary characters, creating dialogues etc.
The limitations that voki has is it can not create more than one character for creating a dialogue. It can not create the whole activity, rather form a part of the activity.
Applicatio of Voki in teaching
Hi Urmilla, after reading your blogpost, I had a few questions about the tool! Are there any functions of Voki that you find useful for the language classroom? How can a EFL teacher use Voki to teach students? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Urmila - I think a Voki would really engage young, or lower level, learners as it's a pretty quirky tool. Obviously you'd have to be careful with grading your language though. I think for higher levels, it would be a great way for teachers to give feedback as it's engaging, and can be repeated over and over until full understanding is reached. Gary
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