The journey project

I used vokis in my final project during the E-learning course run earlier this year by Mark Pegrum** and am about to upload my own to the side-bar of this blog.  Many good points to vokis:

• Very easy to use as long as you don’t spend all day deciding on hair colour
• You can make them look like real people (you, someone famous, your VC) or like no one at all!
• Students are more willing to tape their voices than appear in video
• Can upload geo-specific photos for the backgrounds
• Interactivity is simple – students can SMS you questions and you can convert their message to audio and get the voki to speak it out loud on the web (and then answer it of course!)

My set of vokis are stored on the Study Smarter website and they include an Italian speaking student plus advice on studying part-time and as a mature age student.

**Mark Pegrum runs a pretty phenomenal e-language wiki

Lots happening already this week – a catch-up meeting with Sophie Sunderland (LLRS) generated all sorts of ideas about delivering material via voki, Second Life/machinima and discussion boards in a WebCT module.  Sophie is off to storyboard (we agreed she would “develop content with delivery in mind“) whilst I get ready to get her up to speed on some of the tools and add material to the project wiki as I go.  Great to have an inspirational chat so early in the week!