K-12 Curriculum Development

What is an Avatar?
An Avatar is a character that you can personalize and use when interacting with friends online. By changing hairstyles, clothes, accessories, and backgrounds, you can create your own unique persona.

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Voki is brought to you by the folks at Oddcast, a New York based company that has been creating innovative user-generated media technologies for years.

How Could Teachers Use an Avatar with K-12 students?

An Avatar could explain the next Unit of Study to students.

Students could use an Avatar to explain their group project.

Instead of creating a poster or traditional class project, students could let the Avatar do the talking.

A group of students in a history class could create an Avatar for different people in history (i.e., President of the United States, Governor of Alabama, African American students and families, White police officers, and Classroom teachers).  The students could use the Avatars to demonstrate their understanding of multiple perspectives during the Civil Rights Movement in the years following Brown v. Board of Education.

Are you using Avatars in your classroom? 
Please share your ideas with the K-12 Curriculum Development community.  Thank you!