I created my Voki using animation and beautiful picture as my image. It was fun to do it! The advantage of Voki is that makes connections to other creative website such as blogger, and share our creations.
It really suits for 21st learners. Children would be fascinated the avatars because when it is clicked start to talk and has little movement. I am pretty sure that they will easily be use to use employ the system of Voki, and make creative own avatars to collaborate with their friends or peers.
I will use Voki Avatars for on line assessment with my students. Putting them beside tasks to give some clues, and for praise students, I put them at the end of the task. If the little animation talks and helps them to complete the task, they would love and appreciate it. I believe that could develop their motivation, even it is a boring task. That would link to the Behaviourism theory of learning. Skinner (1950) claimed that frequent practice positively affects the behaviour toward learning.
Regards,
Shiho
Reference
Skinner, B.F.(1950). Operant conditioning. Retrieved on August 17, 2009, from http://tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
Voki. (2009). Create your own avatars!. Retrieved August 13, 2009 from http://www.voki.com/
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