Voki

We will be examining VOKI as a tool to develop pronunciation for advanced students, and to practice vocabulary (colors, parts of the body,...) with very beginning students.




Voki works best used collaboratively in pairs or groups to negotiate using the L2 to create a character.

A good activity is asking groups of students to develop characters from the fantasy group and then incorporate them in their blogs writing about the character's biography, characteristics, personality, family, etc... [depending on what topics you have seen in class]. Then the groups read each other characters and in groups of 4, they come up with a fairy tale that they then write collaboratively using a Google document (or hey just invent the story and then write it individually for homework at home).

Remember that the free VOKIs that you can save send and see the code DO NOT have a left green line on the left upper corner. For those you need to get VOKI classroom , which is NOT free. When you select a character, if it has a small black hat next to it, that is a VOKI Clasroom character and it is no free.