Voki
By tnturner on May 15, 2007 in Educator Resources, Software Review, Tech Tools
Can’t take total credit for this find. Thanks to Steve Dembo of Discovery Education and Teach42.com fame for showing this on his Digital Passports blog. Between grades being due today at my school and re-imaging the first of about 300 computers for next year I’ve not had a chance to check my personal blog RSS feeds. I missed out on reading about Voki until tonight’s what I thought was just going to be a social event with several DEN and prospective DEN people. That’s until Karen showed up and started raving about Voki, and Steve of course.
Our supposed laid back gathering turned into a full blown Voki session. Each of us created our own characters. Our homework was to put a voice to the avatar. As Steve pointed out, you can use a microphone, call in, have them call your OR type the text in. I found typing in the text, that you were VERY limited on the amount you could say.
Here I am creating my voki character, and WHOA! What type of laptop am I using here??? Can it be a mac?? I personally think it looks ALOT like me. Not bad for about 10 minutes worth of work on the mac.
And for the finished product…look to the left in the widget bar–>
Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages…
Tom.
5 Comment(s)
Verry Very cool this Voki thing…
heh, I love it! Although I have to admit, having the character’s eyes follow my mouse around as I scroll through the site is a little creepy! Nice job getting it to look like you too
Steve…
Wait till you see Karen Seddon’s. Looks extremely more like her then mine!
Hey Tom,
Fun, fun, fun. Now you have to be an even bigger geek and try Steve’s other suggestion from this week – iQuiz for you iPod. Now that REALLY has huge classroom application. I was able to make quizzes and have lots of fun with it on my desktop but was unable to get it to work on my iPod until…………I purchased iQuiz in iTunes for 99 cents. Just wanted to save you the hassel of figuring it out. It’s the best 99 cents I’ve spent on educational software ever.
As always, I am,
Ubiquitously Yours,
Karen
Us Voki folks are amazed at the buzz this is creating in the educational community… totally unintended. Actually, we figured our target market would be the MySpace/Facebook crowd… Perhaps we’ll see some “trickle down” from the teachers to the students?
Don’t forget to fill out your “About me section” in your account with scenes so people know who you are when they see your Voki.