Tuesday, April 6, 2010

I have created my first avatar at www.voki.com. Using avatars are a great way to engage learners and gain their attention in a lesson. They could also be used to introduce subjects to students. You could use an avatar of Albert Einstein to introduce a Physics topic. Voki avatars could also be used to occupy students attention for a few minutes to prepare another part of a lesson.



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My initial Voki seems to not be loading for me anymore which is unfortunate so I have created a second avatar on 1/5/2010. If my first avatar loads it should look like this:

I've learnt an important lesson when using technology for teaching which is to plan a back up just in case something goes wrong. Today's technology is incredible when it works right but you never know when something might go wrong.


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  1. mrozmanApril 6, 2010 at 10:24 PM

    Lol, good use of the Voki Andrew. You can't help but say the last line. A great teaching technique!

    Michael Rhodes

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  2. AndrewMay 2, 2010 at 4:58 AM

    It appears my first avatar may not work. Looking at the Voki help area(http://forums.voki.com/posts/list/67.page) I don't think this is isolated to just me.

    I have created a second avatar and will see how this one works out.

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