English Virtual Community

http://www.voki.com is an excellent tool to develop students' imagination and practise the English language.  Advantages:   It is free and embeddable in blogs and wikis Registration is optional Stimulates imagination and creativity Young learners love it ! Disadvantages: Students may spend too much time on the avatar's design Y ou may not record your voice properly Embedding avatars on blogs may be difficult for teachers and students with weak tech - skills Possible Activities: 1- Introduce yourself, say what you did last weekend, say your plans for next holidays, etc.  2- Teacher asks questions about a given topic and Students write the answers in the section "comments" in Blogger . I have used it with young learners and the results were very good. Let me show you some examples:  My avatar http://n4icablaplata.blogspot.com/search/label/voki http://n3-icab.blogspot.com/search/label/voki http://n2-icab.blogspot.com/search/label/...