Brilliant - not only funny but you raise some interesting points, especially in regards to the user-friendliness of a lot of these audiovisual resources and whether this would be an issue in a class of younger students. It leaves on a cliffhanger though, will there be subsequent adventures of Crazy Craig and Danger Dog? And what did you end up having for dinner?
I agree with both of you, it takes a bit of time and it wasn't totally straight forward to use, but I think it would be great fun to use in the class room - the kids would love it! But perhaps more as homework since it takes too long in a classroom setting to fiddle around with it. Each child could create their own voki and it can be embedded in a class wiki?
All of these tools take a bit of time to get used to, for sure, so it's a case of choosing the one(s) you find most relevant and exploring it/them first. Once you've masted a couple, adding more to your 'repertoire' is in fact much easier.
Sara, that's exactly how quite a few teachers are getting their students to use Vokis - creating them in their own time and then embedding them in wikis or blogs.
I'm kinda curious when it comes to vokis... making avatars say hmmm... inappropriate stuff. Kids are gonna find this hilarious (I must admit that I did). It must mean that teachers need to establish a few groundrules before using vokis & perhaps set a focus so that kids stay on task eg. use your voki to express what happens in the daily life of your doogle???
Good point, Vanessa. With all these tools, it's important to set out the ground rules first. You can even try composing the rules as part of a class exercise where students have some input.
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Brilliant - not only funny but you raise some interesting points, especially in regards to the user-friendliness of a lot of these audiovisual resources and whether this would be an issue in a class of younger students. It leaves on a cliffhanger though, will there be subsequent adventures of Crazy Craig and Danger Dog? And what did you end up having for dinner?
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you, it takes a bit of time and it wasn't totally straight forward to use, but I think it would be great fun to use in the class room - the kids would love it! But perhaps more as homework since it takes too long in a classroom setting to fiddle around with it. Each child could create their own voki and it can be embedded in a class wiki?
ReplyDeleteAll of these tools take a bit of time to get used to, for sure, so it's a case of choosing the one(s) you find most relevant and exploring it/them first. Once you've masted a couple, adding more to your 'repertoire' is in fact much easier.
ReplyDeleteSara, that's exactly how quite a few teachers are getting their students to use Vokis - creating them in their own time and then embedding them in wikis or blogs.
I'm kinda curious when it comes to vokis... making avatars say hmmm... inappropriate stuff. Kids are gonna find this hilarious (I must admit that I did). It must mean that teachers need to establish a few groundrules before using vokis & perhaps set a focus so that kids stay on task eg. use your voki to express what happens in the daily life of your doogle???
ReplyDeleteGood point, Vanessa. With all these tools, it's important to set out the ground rules first. You can even try composing the rules as part of a class exercise where students have some input.
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