Voki in the Classroom

Students like to talk. Getting them to stop long enough to teach a lesson has been the challenge for many teachers. However, the advent of 21st century learning techniques and tools gives students the opportunity to speak simultaneously, and in many forms.

Voki gives teachers and students a tool to speak through an online avatar using their own recorded voice. You can customize your avatar to look like you or something completely different (including, animals, monsters, anime, and more).

There are some great uses of Voki in the classroom, including:

Teachers

• Create announcements to place on their website
• Explain how to use the class website
• Homework tutorials
• Visual letter to parents
• Weekly, Monthly or Grading Period updates
• Holiday Greetings

Students

• Use in multimedia project to explain content
• Embed in blog as an audio/visual entry
• Create an avatar of a famous author/scientist/current event personality and act out an audio explanation as part of a project
• Create avatar conversation between yourself and famous historical figure from the past
• Introduce a difficult topic to fellow students
• Summarize a favorite book
• Record a science lab report
• Answer a difficult essay question

Visit Voki Classroom to sign up for an educational account and take advantage of the features.

• Manage students- add and manage all students, assign them a class, and create unique logins.
• Manage classes & lessons- add and manage different classes of students and customize the appearance and instruction for each lesson.
• Review Vokis- review all student Voki assignments and approve all work, in one place.
• Showcase- each lesson creates a new Web page for you to showcase students work.
• Support- unlimited support from a dedicated support team.