Voki

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

Voki allows users to create talking avatars for a wide variety of uses.Voki characters can be embedded into blogs or websites and can be utilised as a way of greeting their readers. Voki users are able to choose the appearance of their character.

When students or teachers are creating vokis they are able to select from a variety of options for inputting voice (including microphone or text-to-speech), backgrounds are able to be customised to create a sense of a personal environment, with options including pre-loaded environments or the ability to upload images (great for integration into travel blogs, for example).

The use of Vokis in the classroom would be interesting as it is a tool that students can create and express themselves with. The program itself is very interesting and easy to use, and could be integrated into any curriculum. The special thing that I can see this tool doing is allowing students with any speech disabilities to be able to interact and express themselves and let their voice be heard.

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'Till next Time,
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References

Vanderloos, B., Slattery, C., and Modra, M. 2008, Computers in Education Retreived 15th August, 2009 from: http://cegsa.editme.com/voki#whatis