Voki Reflection Post

In my class, Principles of Instructional Technology, my first assignment was to create an avatar in voki.com. This website allows you to customize the background of the avatar, the way it talks, and the way it looks. When you add the voice to your avatar the website gives you different options, you could record your own voice or you can assign one of the already recorded voices. For this project, I had to record my own voice. I enjoyed the activity; creating my avatar was fun, I decided to make it look similar to me. I had no trouble creating my voki at first, but when I wanted to record my voice, I couldn’t save it. I tried to record my voice with the microphone and with my computer, but after many attempts to save it, I had no success. I opted to use the call mode, I recorded my voice by phone, and finally I had succeeded. Other than that little problem everything worked great. Voki is a good, fun and hands on tool to use with students to make the learning environment more fun and interesting. I will be using it with my kids at my Elementary school. They can create their own avatar  to practice their pronuntiation. They will have the opportunity to hear their own voices. I have   incorporated technology with learning. It is an entretaining way to learn. 

Here is the link to my voki. Check it out!

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9191475&height=267&width=200

https://filebox.vt.edu/users/baldwino/MATH_4644/TechnologyPhilosophy.htm