Is it becoming more difficult to catch student's attention in your classroom? Especially when they are tried of hearing your voice. Here is your saviour! Why not use avatars to make your classroom more attractive and help student enjoy the game and learn the language at the same time? It definitely will help you in your teaching career. Let me introduce the Voki.com to you and see what this can benefit language teaching.
Here is the URL https://www.voki.com
Introduction
Based on the avatars, there are a lot of things you can do at Voki.com, including assigning homework to your students, inserting your character into slides, creating an avatar to teach in your classroom and so on. Just enter the website and create an avatar. Use your imagination to make your classroom more interesting.
Let me give you an example. I made two avatars to describe their appearance. You can find many different avatars in Voki.com and make full use of them to teach your students how to describe a person's appearance.
Language learning approach
The most useful function of this tool is to give you greater diversity and choice in education. Comparing presenting the teaching material in conventional way, students are willing to learn and focus on something new and creative. You can use these avatars to create some activities on the basis of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach. Combining your task with avatar and encouraging students to learn language by using avatar can help them be interested in language learning process.
Limitations
It must be pointed out that some of the functions are only available with a paid subcription. Also, teachers need to figure out how to properly stimulate student's motivation with this game instead of just having fun.
I do hope you can find something helpful in Voki.com. Looking forward to hear more ideas.
Hi, LU. I really like your beginning. You know what teachers want! And you have added your Voki products into this blog. I am also very comfortable with the length of this blog. It's not long and I could spend couple of minutes to master a digital tool for teaching!
ReplyDeleteHi Lu! It's really a good and interesting way to use such a lively tool to teach our students to describe people's appearance. Thank you for your sharing.
ReplyDeleteHi Lu! I think it is good to see that you have actually used this website and made your own avatars. The images are great and I am also willing to try it!
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