Where In The World Is Our Voki?
Voki’s are a great tool for using on your blog to introduce your blog, leave information etc in an interesting way. A Voki is a talking avatar that you can program to wear and look like what you want. You choose a background, voice and what you want them to say. See one in action here - it appears in the top left corner. Just press the play button!
Often Voki’s are used to introduce a blog. Over at my class blog I have been using our class Voki to develop some geography work with my students. This arose from seeing a lack of world knowledge among my students. Often when we spoke of countries many students did not know where to locate these or that they were even countries some times!
One of the abilities with a Voki is to change the background, it gives you a series of backgrounds to choose from but you are also able to upload your own images. So I set up a Voki with a background of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and set her to speak a clue for the students and visitors.
So I introduced my class to the Voki and played them her message - automatically the kids were buzzing with where they thought she was. The kids then left comment and got really excited seeing where other people around the world thought she was. They were using the wall class map to talk about it also. See our Voki’s first trip here. The first trip looks pretty un-exciting after the next one and the next one, where we included information about the place and a map.
The voki permanently stays in our top left hand corner and each time she moves we write a new post which is where people can guess where she is on her trip. Please head along and leave a comment about where you think she is on her latest travel - the kids love discussing where our visitors are from and their guesses and it allows me to develop their World knowledge in a fun and interesting way.
At the moment there is still alot of input from me but I am looking to incorporate this into the class reading program so each week a reading group takes responsibility for choosing the location and researching the information to put up on the blog at the end of the week.
If you are using your Voki in a different or new way please share your ideas!
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Kirstin
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