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The tool that I chose to review was Voki. Take a peek at it on the right and click the play button. I think that this could be a great tool to use with students. You could use this as your morning routine and have the avatar tell students what they need to be doing while you are doing other things like lunch count or taking attendance. This could definitely be used with a variety of diverse learners. It could be used as a great tool to help kids with sounding things out and how to pronounce things properly.
One of the main reasons why I signed up for Voki is because they have a section dedicated to lesson plans. You can do a lesson plan search by grade or skill and there will be premade lessons that you can use. Not only do you have the option of getting premade lesson you can also upload your own lessons to the website. Here is a
link to their lesson plan page so anyone can check out all of the different lesson plans.
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| www.voki.com |
One thing that I saw that I really liked was that some people used their Voki's when working with poetry. They did this with one of my favorite Dr. Suess books,
Oh the Places You'll Go. If you like that story too check out Voki's
blog where you can see a bear reading the poem. I think Voki is a great tool that students will love. I think students would love using Voki when they have to give reports or oral presentations. They had a whole section of famous people that you could chose as your Voki. I think a great assignment would be to assign students some of the famous people that they use on Voki and them have them give a report using that Voki.
Hey Eric. Voki is definately a great site. My students use it to write book reviews that I post on my library site. My second graders also used it for an "All about Me" project. I signed up for the classroom edition and I 5 classes in it. That is soooo much easier than managing one site with tons of Voki's. You have to pay for it but I have found it's well worth the $30 or so.
ReplyDeleteI love this! Your ideas for using it with students are great. I also liked the links in your post to give more information. This is definitely one I will be looking into more over the summer!
ReplyDeleteI haven't ever checked out the Voki lesson plan site, so thanks for sharing it. I like the hair on your Voki!
ReplyDeleteLook forward to checking this resource, I think my students would really enjoy Voki.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of using the Voki to replace a morning message. I think my third graders get tired of the morning message and I can easily figure out who didn't read it when they start asking questions that were answered in my message. I'm thinking using the Voki next year would greatly increase their interest in actually listening to the message and carrying out their morning duties correctly.
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