I love vokis! I find them fun, engaging, funny and I love the way their eyes follow your mouse! I’ve used vokis in an early childhood classroom situation. I embedded a voki which I created into a wix page as an introduction or an engaging hook into a lesson on fractions for a year 2 class. The voki introduces the task of making pizzas using fractions. In my experience the voki seemed to be an effective hook for the lesson. To view the voki and wix which I used for this lesson go to the following site:
(….I think I created this before I knew how to change the voki character.)
I believe vokis would mainly be beneficial as an engagement tool. It could also be embedded into websites and this could give extra information, clarification or support the learning task, similar to visual images.
Benefits:
- Engaging for children
- Variety of character to choose from
- Can place voki in different settings which means teachers can choose relevant settings for the lesson
- Can add your own audio
- Can choose different accents
- Quite easy to create
- Can be embedded in websites
Challenges:
- Audio is monotone, probably can only interest students for a short amount of time
- Would likely need other ICTs and resources to make it an effective learning tool
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