Location: www.voki.com
Voki is a tool for creating your own avatar (an animated picture of someone). You can personalise your avatar and record (or type in) the words you want it to speak.
1) How to use it:
PRIMARY:
SECONDARY:
2) Teaching ideas
PRIMARY:
Use Voki to add a speaking and listening dimension to any writing activity. For example, if your pupils are writing about their likes and dislikes (as in the example below from Bugs World 3), they can record or key the sentences into Voki and hear them spoken. They can watch and listen to each other’s avatars.
Taken from Bugs World 3 by Elisenda Papiol and Maria Toth (Macmillan ELT)
Here’s an example we made:
SECONDARY:
Make dictations more student centred by getting them to record their own voices then transcribe what each other’s avatar is saying. Or extend a letter or email-writing activity by bringing it to life through an avatar! Here’s an example from Voices 1. Students are given the following writing task:
Taken from Voices 1 by Catherine McBeth (Macmillan ELT)
Here’s our example: