Voki is a free service that allows you to createpersonalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. (Voki.com) Now that you know what they are; I can tell you how it could be beneficial in the teaching career.
1. Students and educators can use them to introduce projects and assignment on social medias and blogs.
2. Can be used to create greeting messages for loved ones and special occasions.
3. Are a fun tool to use to get students excited about subjects such as, science, math and history.
4. They can be used as a tool to introduce team members in a group assignment. Allows for individuality within the group environment.
5. Allows teachers to send personal greetings and words of encouragement to students that might be sick or did great on a test.
I would have never known anything about this site if not for my EME2040 class. As I was completing this project I felt like a kid back in art school. It was a refreshing change from all the reading in all my classes this semester.
I look forward to the other challenges ahead this semester.
Nice job! You may be a digital native and not even know it!
ReplyDeleteYou'll find some more ideas for using Vokis in their new newsletter:
http://tinyurl.com/67g4zun
Isn't it exciting to be on the ground floor of a new education tool? Think about adding one to your team wiki--or next week, to your OWN wiki!