Tools/Voki

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Tool Description Voki (voki.com) is a made for school tool. The first step is to choose an animated character and customise it. The second step is to make it talk either by typing or talking. You can choose to upload text to hear an electronic voice or instead upload a voice recording to hear your own voice. Students might, easily use voki to explain a topic but you can imagine other uses. Two further options allow you to add voice with a microphone, or add voice by telephoning a number (it's a US number so hopefully you'll use an affordable service). With the voice and avatar finalised, you obtain a line of code to play the performance on a blog, social network or weblink. Several 'lesson plans' demonstrate what can be done in class. A class manager allows the teacher to set assignments and manage logins. ^(edit)Voki (voki.com) is a made for school tool. The first step is to choose an animated character and customise it. The second step is to make it talk either by typing or talking. You can choose to upload text to hear an electronic voice or instead upload a voice recording to hear your own voice. Students might, easily use voki to explain a topic but you can imagine other uses. Two further options allow you to add voice with a microphone, or add voice by telephoning a number (it's a US number so hopefully you'll use an affordable service). With the voice and avatar finalised, you obtain a line of code to play the performance on a blog, social network or weblink. Several 'lesson plans' demonstrate what can be done in class. A class manager allows the teacher to set assignments and manage logins.

Teaching Approach. Animation tools can be used to create narrative^(ta) for explaining or modelling^(ta) ideas. They can be revisited by pupils both in class - in whole class, small group, or individual work - and at home for homework^(ta) tasks. ^(edit)

Tool details
Title	Voki - talking animated characters
Topic
Licence / Cost / Platform	Web based tool, partly free and advertising supported. A none-too costly classroom subscription option is available.
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Teaching Ideas / Links
Link	voki.com