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__**What is Voki? **__
====Voki is a creative and easy to use tool which can help motivate students on reading comprehension and engage students to be more engaged in lessons. Students get to create their own character or teachers can create characters that tell stories to students and can be used in centers. ====

Check out this video to see how to create your Voki! [|Voki Tutorial]

__**What are the benefits of Voki? **__
====Voki is a great way to allow students to present their ideas without standing in front of the class. This is great for those students who are too shy to speak up in front of their peers. It is also a great way for students to report on things they learned in a fun and engaging way. There are lots of benefits for teachers. They can use this in a station to explain the activities that need to be completed so students can replay the voki throughout center time if they forget the directions. The ideas and possibilities for using Voki are endless! ====

__**Here is an Example of a Voki we created: **__
[|Five Finger Rule]

1) Choose your background
2) Choose the Voki character you would like to use 3) Change mouth, hair, clothes, and/or accessories 4) Pick how your Voki with talk (text to voice, microphone, through phone) 5) Record your directions or message for your students 6) I used text to voice to give students instructions on how to pick out a book that will be just right for them.

**__Voki Activity: __**
====Have students use Voki to explain things they learned from the unit on fall. Students will create a Voki to present three facts they learned during the fall unit, one interesting thing they did not know before the unit started, and one thing they would like to know a little more about in relation to the fall unit. Allow students to create their own avitar to wrap up and close our entire fall unit. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use this as a post assessment of students understanding of the information that was taught. This is a great way to conclude and wrap up the unit.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Create a news report
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Follow directions from the Voki that their teacher has created for assignments

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Evaluating: Voki Book Review]
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|GFAA 2nd grade Book Summaries] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Creating: Voki Poetry]

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Why kids like to use Voki in the classroom] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|How a teacher used Voki on Energy] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Conferring with an Avatar]