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media type="custom" key="13088330" align="left"**__Voki__** Avatar: a graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego Voki is a speaking avatar that you can customize any way you want from cartoons to animals to even yourself. You can also add your own voice to the voki and make it say anything you like.

**__Why use Voki in a Classroom?__** Voki adds a "Human" element to blogs and online class websites and is also a lot easier to use compared to video taping or vodcasting. Voki also helps aid to auido/visual learners and helps shy students out of their shells and involved with other students and students in other countries. It also encourages a creative way to learn and gets students, teachers, and parents involved together in technology. "Avatars provide a face to the students and a face to the teacher. They provide the human element to online teaching." -- A. Cohen

__**Ways to use Voki in the Classroom**__
 * Teachers can introduce topics and course
 * Students can comunicate these avatars with fellow students of students all over the world.
 * Students can generate questions to ask their avatar e-pals and ask questions through online classes instead of using message boards.
 * Students can use the speaking avatars to practice and listen to their speech.
 * Students can create an avatar that resembles a character from a story past experience or event that has happened give it a setting and beach and watch it come alive.

__**Inquiring Voki into Lesson Plans**__ Voki can be used to make lesson plans in any subject it also has a site where you can see how other teachers have used voki in their lesson plans. Click below for site []

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__**Web Address, Creator and Access Avaliable**__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Voki was created by Oddcast, a New York based company that has been creating speaking characters on the web for years. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Access media type="youtube" key="tHza_R6c3WU" height="315" width="560" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Click on link to create your own Voki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[]
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Voki Expert Group] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">A Voki is a great tool to grab the children's attention and it's a great tool to use in the classroom because it's something new to them and they will be able to pay more attention to what you are trying to teach them.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Group Members: Lauren Serre, Codi Karason, Michael Wohleber

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1. A Graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">A. Sim <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">B. Avatar <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">C. icon <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">D. Fred

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">2. Voki was created by ? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">A. A Cohen <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">B. Oddcast <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">C.Proffessor Doc <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">D. Larry King