Voki

Voki is a wonderfully fun website that allows anyone to create and customise their own talking "Avatar". This site would be very useful for any teacher looking for a new way to help teach their children, as it will provide them with a completely different style of learning which will be fun and interactive. Voki allows anyone to create these "Avatars" and share them with everyone allowing for a fantastically interactive way of learning as it will allow children to explore their classmates' "Avatars". Obviously sharing these on the internet may not be suitable for children in primary school age but can be done in secondary school. It can be used to help children learn as all the teacher has to do is type in what he/she wants to say and the Avatar will say it. How will this help them to learn? Well it's completely different to any other way children would have learnt before, it's completely new to them and it breaks up the lesson to something a bit more fun which is imperative to children’s learning. If you look at one of my recent blogs called Nativity Sonnet, that’s created with Voki. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX05alxaTPo