Voki

 Voki is a platform where students and teachers create their own personalized characters and give them a speech. This speech can either be their own voice or a computer voice. Voki creates a learning environment where students can have fun while learning. 

Voki is a great tool to attract students' attention. As the avarage attention span of a student is 15 minutes, it is important to keep students engaged in the lesson. Voki can be used for this purpose. Students can create their own characters, add voices to them and watch each other's Voki videos. Additionally, students can work individually or together as a group. When working together with their classmates, the cooperative aspect to the activities is very beneficial for students to strangthen each other's weaknesses. Through this participation, students will focus on the lesson since Voki is an interesting tool to use in the classroom. This would also help students share new ideas and get involved in critical thinking.

To create a Voki, all that has to be done is to create a personalized character and give it a voice. When doing this, the voice can either be recorded or read by the computer according to the written document. One important point here is that it is preferred for students to record their own voice. Even though it is possible to let the computer read it, teachers should encourage their students to use their own voice. For language lessons, students recording their own voices would be helpful in creating opportunities for them to speak in the target language

Here is an example of a material prepeared with Voki;

My voki