use Voki to motivate your students

It is important for teachers to catch students' attention in the class. Students tend to lose their concentration when teachers are giving a long talk. Many teachers are frustrated by this problem. However, now I am going to introduce a tool that can make your teacher talk more interesting. It is called "Voki".
What is Voki?
Voki is a game-like tool that can help you express by using a talking character and your own voice.
Tutorial
Put Voki on your google search and you will certainly find the website or you can just click here: https://www.voki.com/student/create
First of all, you can choose the character you like by clicking the first button with a face on it. There are several tags you can choose and under each tags there are many characters of the same type.

Then you can choose what the character wears by clicking the second button with a T-shirt and a cap on it. Uses are free to choose the background of the character showing by the second picture.

You can record your voice and enter message as shown in the third picture.

There are also many videos about Voki on Youtube. Search Voki and I think you will find more information.

How to use it in your classroom?

I will use Voki to give oral instructions in my classroom. We can also ask students to make a Voki video to express their ideas. It is good for you to add an interesting Voki video in your lesson presentation.

Limitation 

Though it can make the class more interesting for the students, some students may pay more attention to the character itself but not the message it conveys. To use Voki in the classroom, the classroom must have electronic devices like a computer and a projector. I do not find any way to download the video created by Voki so you need to use USB to store it and bring it to the classroom. It may be difficult for classrooms without these devices and the Internet in remote and poor areas. Additionally, the resources on Voki are limited. I think the background and the cartoon characters are kind of out of fashion. It cannot add pictures and presentation slides to the video. It will be better for students to understand when having some pictures and other materials. 

All pictures in my blog are from: https://www.voki.com/student/create