Get a Voki Speaking Avatar to Greet Visitors to Your Site and More...

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Permalink Reply by Sue Palmer on January 10, 2008 at 8:49am

I have one on my site and love it. It is supposed to look a bit like "me".

Sue P

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Permalink Reply by nlowell on January 10, 2008 at 11:10am

Not to be a curmudgeon but:

My blind students can't see it.

My deaf students can't hear it.

It's not worth the bandwidth for me to use it.

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Permalink Reply by Frank, Divergent Learner on January 10, 2008 at 11:31am

yeah in your case nlowell not a good option .. yes Anne .. comment feature is actually what makes it attractive to me .. because students could have a travelling dialogue across the globe. Exercising authentic use of the language (in my case typical language learners without special needs).

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 11, 2008 at 6:05pm

Frank, forget the gender comment from the dog named Nancy (with the voice of Paul)---I thought your avatar was male--then I looked at it today and it was female---then a golden retreiver--never mind.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Mirtschin on January 11, 2008 at 6:29pm

LOL web 2.0 can be so confusing!!!! Great!

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Permalink Reply by Frank, Divergent Learner on January 12, 2008 at 2:30pm

Nancy .. I love it .. don't worry ... hehe. My voki avatar will take on many different personalities .. so that it doesn't get stale. My voki representation is actually one of the comments .... so I am in there somewhere .. hehe

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Permalink Reply by Helen Otway on January 14, 2008 at 4:43pm

I explored Voki yesterday and thought it was a lot of fun. I have mine on my Classroom 2.0 page. I have also written a blog post about my 'adventure' with it on my page.
Thanks for reminding me to give it a go.
Helen

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Permalink Reply by Helen Otway on January 16, 2008 at 6:11pm

Has anyone tried to embed a Voki avatar into Edublogs? What's the trick??

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 16, 2008 at 6:20pm

We use a blog made with Drupal, and there is an option to "disable rich text"---allowing you to paste the code in. Does Edublogs have an option like that? You can see me here. I look so mature--I am "old" but my avatar makes me look even more mature!!

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Permalink Reply by Helen Otway on January 16, 2008 at 6:50pm

Hi Nancy,
Still tricky! I've tried this and all that comes is the "Get Voki' tag!!! Very frustrating.
BTW, you sound great with a British accent. Not that I've heard you without it.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 16, 2008 at 7:48pm

I've posted on this discussion before with my ups and downs with voki. I did it with 50 kids this week and the verdict is in....drum roll please.....this is one of many 2.0 tools that is going to the bottom of the list. The kids were lovin' it and rolling on the floor laughing but I can't see that we'll be working with voki anymore in class. I think it's a stretch to find a use in our classroom. I have introduced some tools that having staying power, but this isn't going to be one. Good luck with your post---what you are getting means you may be cutting the wrong code or putting it into the WYSIWYG and not into the code "box".

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Permalink Reply by Frank, Divergent Learner on January 16, 2008 at 8:19pm

Hi Nancy .... people say the same thing about twitter .. and then other educators have devised very creative uses of twitter for educational purposes. It is all in the implementation. Every tool is useless and a waste if time if not used in a constructive way.

I work with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students and vokis give learners opportunities to use and get exposure to the language (structure, pronunciation, communications, reading, listening, writing, and speaking) in a very accessible nonthreatening way. Plus instead the old-school penpals, you can now have voki-pals that speak and respond across boundaries (countries, gender, economies, etc). Kids also get to learn technology and new media publication in the process.

So, I guess my point is that any tool can work wonders if implemented with purpose. And, any tool can not work also, as is your experience. Thank goodness we have much to choose from.

:) Frank

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