The Learning Technology Team

Using Vokis in Wiki’s!

I have been using vokis on wikis with our youth General Education students in our CGVE (Cert II in General & Education -year 10) and LLNP (Language, Literacy & Numeracy Program) courses. Both groups are very keen. Initially the Fun Factor was major but the more the students do the more benefits I see they are getting from these activities.

I have set up a wiki for each group in www.wetpaint.com this is a commercial site, but after you have set up the wiki you can email them to have the advertising removed (you will see this has happened on the LLNP wiki & will happen soon on the CGVE wiki).

High student benefits and engagement

The students value having their own site that they can access from home to show their parents and friends what they’re doing at TAFE. They just love vokis, they provide great experience in drafting scripts to record, choosing their visual image, clothing, hair etc to present themselves. By listening to the recordings and self evaluating their speech, they are able to express themselves in a safe, non-threatening way.

I have seen lots of development in students from creating vokis- it was a great way to get students in CGVE to choose the topic for their major projects (an integrated assessment task involving 6 units). The students had to introduce the topic and explain why they chose it- each student seemed to take ownership of the topic because they had to think, then write a very short script, record, evaluate, listen & see others viewing their work on the wiki.

We also have vokis introducing the students and staff. On the wiki we’ve created slide shows made in www.slide.com, signs made in www.flamingtext.com, we’ve started using the discussion area and created a suggestions page. Soon we will be loading samples of work. The CGVE students are keen to upload some vokis they made recently about the lack of accommodation for youth in our area which support their letter writing activity on this topic.

More Information

I have attached a table outlining the benefits of using wikis and vokis with Gen Ed students and the instructions on Making Voki’s are on the Institute e-Learning Kit. There are some instructions on flaming text and inserting them into your wiki here.

Please feel free to go and look at our wikis www.llnp.wetpaint.com and www.cgve08.wetpaint.com

Hope you enjoy these resources. If you would like some assistance with using wikis and vokis, or ideas for use with your students please email me or ring on ext 50640.

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