Monday, 11 October 2010

3.- PROJECT 1: VOKIS FOR THE CLASSROOM

As you have seen there are so many Web 2.0 resources that we may get overwhelmed. 

Let's start by using one of them: Vokis. Why Vokis? I think it's motivating, easy to grasp both for students and teachers and can be applied to any subject.

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

We are going to learn to create one and to embed it in our blog.

 

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  1. amef11 October 2010 at 06:41

    "As a teacher, one of my favorite ways to use Voki in September is for 'getting to know you' activities. Students can create a Voki telling 3 fun facts about themselves. Then other students can listen to their Vokis and try to guess who 'owns' each Voki. It's fun, interactive, and the kids love it! Plus, it helps students learn the tool before you introduce it with academic content. This activity also works great as an icebreaker for staff technology trainings at beginning of the year faculty meetings!"
    Kristen Swanson Twitter /Blog


    "If you are working with young and very young learners, Voki is one of the greatest tools to engage your students with your lessons. You can use Voki with so many different activities throughout the year.
    • It's great to use on the first day of school and as an icebreaker for kindergarten and primary school kids.
    • If you have a class blog, you can use it on the front page to introduce yourself and welcome your students.
    • You can create a class pet/puppet/mascot that will ask kids questions about themselves, such as what they did in the summer or how they feel about coming back to school.
    • You can let your students create talking avatars to introduce themselves to each other.
    • You can create a Voki avatar for parents, to talk about your objectives, class rules and what you expect them to do.


    Voki is such a cool, user-friendly and fun tool to use in your classes that you and your students will love creating speaking avatars with it. Your lessons will change forever!"

    Teacher/Trainer, Turkey



    "I frequently use Web 2.0 tools to engage my sixth and seventh grade social studies students. At first, I will be using a Voki avatar based on myself to lead a virtual tour of the new class homepage. My goal is to pique my student's interest in creating their own personalized Voki's. I plan on having students create Voki's based on historical figures. Since the avatars can be easily embedded on a webpage, blog, or wiki, my students will also use Voki to communicate with other classrooms around the world. I am especially excited to see how the quieter, shy students use Voki as a tool to more freely speak their minds."
    Matt Farber Twitter/Blog


    "Do you need the attention of your students or do some seem to lack focus? My students love seeing a new or well-used Voki, and the Voki always has their complete attention. For the first day of school, I will use a Voki to help welcome the students to their new class and to introduce and clarify parts of my first day slideshow. I'm lucky to have a Smartboard, and I also have wired standard stereo speakers and placed them in the room; no matter where a student sits, they can clearly (see and) hear what is going on! I've found that Voki is a great tool for transitions between subjects as well as when a new group enters the room; my Voki uses student names or says something odd to capture the attention of all in the room. It always works! My new students can't wait to see and hear what the Voki will have to say!"

    Landell Elementary School


    "In my fifth grade inclusion class in New York, USA, I work hard to provide many venues where ALL my students can find tools to be successful. Voki is a perfect tool for struggling writers, children working on fluency but not quite there yet, and unmotivated workers. And, of course, it's just fun!
    To start the school year, my co-teacher and I have created Vokis and embedded them in our class website. http://herricks.org/webpages/dentondynamos/
    This is our introduction to our students. One of the first online assignments they will have is creating their own Voki and posting it on their new blogs.
    http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=88116
    I cannot wait to see what they create to introduce themselves to the world."
    Lisa Parisi
    New York

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  2. amef11 October 2010 at 06:43

    Voki Ideas: Get Inspired!

    Teach a Foreign Language: "As a foreign language pronunciation tool, to record things that I will have to reuse/repeat; to add to my blog, etc :) - I teach French -- J'aime les vokis!!"
    Shared on Facebook / By: Tamar Bailey-Silvera
    Introduce a New Topic: "Instructors can use a Voki avatar to introduce the course or topics. It can also be used to aid in instructing those who are more audio/visual learners. Voki is also a great way to get shy students involved or to share comments with students in other countries."
    Found on Squidoo.com/Voki / By: Kirsti A. Dyer
    Collaborate Internationally: "...used for students to introduce themselves to the students in another global school on collaborative projects. The class from each country has set up 5 questions they would like to know about each other and then replies have been made via Vokis on a collaborative wiki."
    Found on Classroom 2.0 Forum / By: Anne Mirtschin
    Encourage Story Telling: "Students can create an avatar that resembles a character from a story, add a setting and give it speech. The speech could be from the story or a creative point of view from the character on an event."
    Found on The Edublogger / By: Sue Waters

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