Image Source: Flickr by I'm Your Father with some rights reserved |
Image Source: Flickr by I'm Your Father with some rights reserved. |
Teachers can use this in the classroom by having their students creating digital identities. For English classes mainly, whether ESL or the mainstream English classes, students can use it for any digital storytelling projects. This can help raise the learners' interests in reading and storytelling which will help improve their speaking and reading skills. Besides that, learners can create conversations with their classmates or teacher and this can help to motivate all kinds of learners--the quiet or the outspoken ones--to practice their speaking and listening skills.
Besides that, most parents would feel comfortable with their children using avatars instead of their real identities especially when it is geared towards learning.
Here are some suggestions that teachers can do with Voki in their classroom, this is geared mostly towards English teachers.