Hello, @kona !
Thanks for following up.
A Voki is an education tool - an animated avatar - that allows users to create their own talking character. Voki characters can be customized to look like historical figures, cartoons, animals, and even yourself! The avatar I use here in Canvas is a Voki of me 🙂
I used several Voki this semester in a course I had gamified, having them serve as tour guides taking students around a community college campus. In my gamified course, students attended an online social then were greeted by this tour guide:
I experimented with using Voki in several ways in this course, having them explain an assignment, provide content, and weave a narrative, Probably my favorite experiment was in combining several Voki to relay community college access stories. I can embed these directly into Canvas, decreasing the chance of losing students once they leave 🙂
I have found them to be fun and easy to create, but I wanted to see what others are doing with VOKI in higher education. I still have plans to use Voki to demonstrate how not to communicate (workplace games) but have run out of energy for this semester 🙂
I blogged about my use of Voki in a gamified course .. When I have surveyed students about the use of Voki, some enjoyed them, others did not.
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