Yesterday in class, Dr. Marta introduced a website that got all of us excited. Voki is a website where you can create your own avatar, and get he/she/it to say anything that you want by typing the text in the textbox or even recording your own voice. There is also lesson plans available for teachers to see how they can incorporate Voki into their classrooms. Best of all, it's for FREE!!!!
I was amazed by the range of options available in creating and personalizing your own avatar. You can choose to be monsters, animals, famous people and so many more. After that, you can customize it to your preference, even down to skin colour and lip shape. Even for the speech of your avatar, you can choose the accent, from US to UK to Australia accent.
I think that this will be a wonderful tool of learning in my classroom. It is interesting and attractive to students. Moreover, I can customize it to suits my teaching needs. This, i think, can be wonderful set-induction, especially for speaking lesson.
Each day, there are new discovery of exciting learning tools that can be incorporated into the teaching and learning process of English language classroom. I marvel at the advancement and sophistication of technology and am grateful for the abundance of teaching aids which is now available for us teachers.
My newly created Voki avatar- Roxanne the witch, a persona which my students is quite familiar with :)
It works. Good job
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