WORDLE and VOKI

I really enjoyed last lesson. We began to explore some web 2.0 tools. I learnt about two of them: WORDLE and VOKI.

WORDLE is a tool for generating "word clouds" from texts that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Source: http://www.wordle.net/

VOKI is a tool for creating speaking avatars. 

During the lesson, we were asked to use WORDLE to create a word cloud with the definition of one of the Web 2.0 tools. I created this "Word Cloud":

The word clouds were used as riddles for the rest of the class. 

We created a VOKI to provide the answer to the riddles. This is my VOKI:

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=6522592&height=267&width=200

Both tools can be used as effective learning tools because:

• They motivate students to participate.
• They introduce technology in a fun way.
• They are easy to use.

Source: http://www.voki.com/