Alternative Rules

I'm going to use an avatar like this one from Voki to present the Rules and Classroom procedures to my class during the first week of school. I think the novelty of the presentation alone will help my students to pay attention. If I have enough time, I'd like to lay out a script where the Avatar has a conversation with my co-teacher in real time. I would have to leave pauses on the Avatar and provide a script to my co-teacher in order to make it work, but it could be fun.

I also think that it would be fun to have my students create one of these. Rather than just right a standard "paragraph response to this essay question", what if I had them make an Avatar that would tell me there response. I see some real possibilities here and I think it would ramp up the quality of work that I get out of my students.