For today's class we wrote our Educational Philosophy if we didn't have it with us, and used a Voki avatar to convey the second aspect of the questions we were asked. We were asked to keep our Educational Philosophy short- 100 words for each question, and focus on why we want to pursue our chosen subject area and how we intend to research after we attain that goal.
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We had a lot of options when designing our Voki. First we had to determine the physical appearance, and whether to make it look like ourselves or make something up (there was even a Digimon option!). More importantly, however were the options to add sound. You could upload a message in your own voice by phone or computer microphone, or even just copy and paste text (which is what I did). I'm not entirely sure what we'd use this for in the future, other for fun, or possibly to help students who are visually impaired navigate a class website.
Either way, it emphasizes NETS standard 2, substandard a, which states that teachers should "design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity."
