Avatars
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It would be really nice to be able to embed “talking avatars” and other virtual characters, such as My Voki and others. There’s great potential for using these, namely in blog related to the study of foreign languages.
PLEEEEASE!Esmcrie
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Actually if I saw a talking avatar, I would punch my monitor. I don’t like talking ads either which is why I have adblockplus and zap them at a moments notice. But that’s just me.
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It’s not just you.
Why not try the Meebo chat widget? That doesn’t impact security, yet it allows you to talk with people. Or twitter.
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I asked all my avatars if they had anything to say … they just shrugged their shoulders and looked at me in silent bewilderment.
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OK, ok…
I also use Meebo chat widget – in my Google pages, in my Hi5, in my Moodle. But I can’t use it in my Wordress blog either, because it’s flash.
I have just started blogging, and I chose WordPress because of the “Page” feature and because it seemed there were lots of plugins I could use – only to see the things that are most likely to grab 12 to 16 year olds (my students’ ages) attention are “forbidden”.
I know I’ll probably have to look elsewhere, but it’s kind of annoying when you are just starting, you know you will have difficulty in having not only your students but your colleagues as well involve themselves in this brave new world, to just have to move immediately after you arrived.
As for speaking avatars, I do believe there is a place for them, specially in foreign language teaching. Not text-to-speech characters, but characters in which you – and your students – can use their own voice, without being obliged to expose their own face, or to have access to a webcam.
Maybe blogs aren’t the right place for it, maybe they are. All I wanted was to talk about them, to show they are there, to suggest two or three things, to give one or two examples. Maybe they would be very useful, a little useful or absolutely useless. Who knows? Only those who know they exist and m ake use of them. I just wanted to be able to do that – in my WordPress blog (sniff… sniff).
JLucas -
You can use all of those things you want in a wordpress blog. But you cannot use them in a blog hosted at WordPress.com. There are two different kinds of WordPress, and there’s a thread at the head of the forum that explains the difference.
Before investing a lot of work in any particular platform, why don’t you make a list of deal-breakers, things you MUST have. Then another list of things that would be very useful. Go with the platform that has all of the dealbreaker priorities and the largest number of the second.
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You can, of course, simply drag the meebo widget into your sidebar. That’s one thing you CAN use here.
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Wouldn’t you know? I hadn’t seen the Meebo widget, and tried to insert the code in a text widget. And that way it did not work. So simple, but I had missed it. Thanks.
JLucas -
I’ve uploaded my avatar 3 times and it still doesn’t show next to my comments. Am I not saving it correctly? Does it take a few days to start showing up?
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