With Facebook, Twitter and MySpace being the most popular
sites for students to visit these days, I decided to look at other sites that I
haven’t heard of before and see how they can be used in an educational context.
I looked at a site called ‘Voki’ http://www.voki.com/
This site basically lets you create an avatar and put in your own voice to create an effective learning tool. I think this is most beneficial for students whose learning styles are auditory or visual.
This also puts a fun side into learning, and I think would motivate students to listen and learn, rather than having the teacher giving information.
After researching ‘voki’ a bit more, I learnt that nearly 1,000,000 students and teachers use it worldwide as an educative tool, and teachers who use it in lessons find their students more motivated to learn. Recently Voki has grown even more, as teachers are now using ‘Voki Classroom’, to plan lessons and even take the register! As it says on the website, “Teachers can spend less time planning, and more time educating”.
I thought this was especially beneficial for exams and revision. So I had a go of creating my own avatar using voki.
I looked at a site called ‘Voki’ http://www.voki.com/
This site basically lets you create an avatar and put in your own voice to create an effective learning tool. I think this is most beneficial for students whose learning styles are auditory or visual.
This also puts a fun side into learning, and I think would motivate students to listen and learn, rather than having the teacher giving information.
After researching ‘voki’ a bit more, I learnt that nearly 1,000,000 students and teachers use it worldwide as an educative tool, and teachers who use it in lessons find their students more motivated to learn. Recently Voki has grown even more, as teachers are now using ‘Voki Classroom’, to plan lessons and even take the register! As it says on the website, “Teachers can spend less time planning, and more time educating”.
I thought this was especially beneficial for exams and revision. So I had a go of creating my own avatar using voki.
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