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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Using technology to learn and teach speaking skills

Voki is a great learning tool to practice speaking, one of the most attractive issue of it is that you have to create a cartoon character and it can be applied for an entire school. You can try a free trial for the class and also you have a 15 days trial which you can use it as teacher, class or both. It can be useful for student-centered activities.   



       

This learning tool can help students is several areas as ELA (English language arts) with speaking and listening skills, main idea and supporting ideas, prediction, vocabulary and writing skills; Math with computation, reasoning, problem solving, critical thinking and modeling; Science withscientific method, classifying, gather and organize data and crosscutting concepts; Social Studies with gather, interpret and use evidence comparison and economics; and Foreign Language with its four abilities (reading, writing, speaking and listening). Every subject has different activities in which student can use their imagination to create.



When your cartoon character is created, you just need to start talking and the character will record and reproduce what you say in order to create presentations. It is specially designed for young learners who are attractive to this enjoyable tool.

The limitation that I identified is that it is more attractive to young students and for them will be a great experience. On the other, it will not be appealing for adults. 




1 comment:

  1. Hello Daniela,

    First of all, I want to say that without reading the post, it inmediately called my attentions because of the design of it. I really love the images and the colour that you used. You explained very well the characteristics of this learning tool. To be honest, I have no idea of the existance of this tool until I read you entry, and I think it is really interesting that in an online tool EFL can cope the language with english language art. I like the way you displayed the information, it is very clear.

    Regards.

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