Voki- Create Your Own Avatar Cartoon Character
Added: 25 May 2016
Contributor:
Scoilnet
Resource type:
Audio / Video
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Role Play
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Simulation
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Tool
Voki has been recommended at this year's Digital MegaMeet conference. It is an online free platform (register for free if you want to save your Avatars). Use Voki in class to help your students imaginatively develop their characters or to develop their self-esteem and public speaking confidence. The site is in English but could be easily incorporated into English, Irish and Drama classes. Use Voki as a fun way to record pupils reading poems, daily news in cartoon form. Pupils love taking care of their avatars ensuring they are learning just as much as they are!
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Oral Language
Suggestions for use: Allow pupils time to reflect on their learning by creating Avatars to record their poems, news or stories in digital format. Share with class to pick the next top cartoon.
Strand: Téama
Strand unit: Ag úsáid teanga
Suggestions for use: D'fhéadfá Avatar a aistriú go Gaeilge. Convert your Avatar to Gaeilge by recording poems and news in Irish. You are in control of your Avatar! Spend time allowing pupils to assess each others Avatars and provide peer feedback to each other in a constructive manner of "what went well" and "even better if".
Strand: Useful Websites
- JC
- Gaeilge
Strand: Léamh
Suggestions for use: Excellent resource for engaging lower ability students into your Irish class in a fun and interactive manner. Allow students to create their own Avatars. Convert your Avatar to Gaeilge by recording poems and news in Irish. You are in control of your Avatar! Spend time allowing pupils to assess each others Avatars and provide peer feedback to each other in a constructive manner of "what went well" and "even better if". Perfect also for Transition Year classes in practicing oral work.
Key Skills:
- Being Creative
- Communicating
- Managing Information and Thinking
- Staying Well
- Working with Others
- Literacy
- Managing Myself
