Using+Vokis+in+Education

= ﻿Using Vokis in Education ﻿﻿﻿﻿ = Students in the ISTC 541 class created Vokis ([|http://www.voki.com]) and embedded them into their personal pages in the class wiki. They were asked to reflect on possible uses of vokis in PK-12 classrooms; their responses are below: media type="custom" key="8393200" align="left" width="63" height="63"

**Jessica** says that Voki's are a great tool to use in education. Not only can the students have a great time creating them, they can use them as a real learning tool. Students can use the voice/text option to input information they have learned and play it back! They can also use it as a review, the voki can ask them a question and they have to answer it. I love anything that gets the students to be creative and use some brain power.

I think that my 7th graders would really enjoy playing around with both the avatar and the audio linked to it. This is a fun interactive way to incorperate "fun" technology lessons into math. Both the voki website and the audacity program are user friendly, i'm sure that my students would jump right in. One way for my students to use the site is to use vokis to record directions for solving problems (equations maybe). If everyone contribltes, we will have a huge collection to choose from and a great resource to reference old lessons and concepts. I could see myself using this program to put step by step math directions for studying/homework help on edline. IStudents would benefit from the verbal prompts that the voki provides, and the the voki won't get sick of repeating herself!
 * Natalee**


 * Lisa** says that Voki's could be a great learning tool for students, even at 4th and 5th grade level. In the media center curriculum, students create stories as well as do research. With the ease of use of both Audacity & Voki programs, students could record self-created stories or record booktalks about books they would recommend to fellow students. I could start a research project by creating a Voki with questions to think about or steps in completing the project.

I think Voki would be a great thing to use with students. One way it could be used is after students write a story they could read their story into Audacity and create a voki to go along with their story. They could then hear their story and use this as an editing tool because they would be able to hear if their story sounds right. Another way that a Voki could be used is to help students learn their math facts in the upper elementary school grades. The teacher could have one student a week record a math fact family and allow them to creat a Voki that they like. Each day before math the teacher could play the Voki and the students could say the facts with the Voki in order to help them review their facts. I also thought Voki's could be used to in almost any grade level as introductions in the beginning of the year. Students could make a Voki that looks like them and include a few interesting facts.
 * Lindsey**