Tech Integration Post #7 0f 10: Using Voki’s in Social Studies

After covering The United Nations, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and The Convention of the Rights Of The Child in our social studies classes this term, I successfully used Voki’s with my students to demonstrate their knowledge.

Here’s an outline of what I had them do:

Assignment Steps:

1. Visit www.voki.com
2. Click on the create button in the top left hand corner
3. Next, customize your character by gender, hairstyle, and clothing
4. Once you are happy with your character click done
5. Now it’s time to add the voice of your character.  I would like you to make your character talk about important points you have recently learned about the United Nations
6. You can either record your own voice or use the text to speech box.
7. Once you’ve selected an appropriate voice for your character click done
8. You can now publish your work – click publish
9. You will be prompted to name your work: Use firstname and UN in capitals
10. If you have not already created an account you will need to do so now – use your @mrlister.co.cc email address and DO NOT use your last name
11. Once registered choose medium sized voki
12. Copy all the text in the box labelled “For Most Sites Use This Code”
13. Once you have the code for your Voki visit the following Google Document and paste your code under your name – http://bit.ly/hsohIT

Student engagement levels were particularly high during this assignment and I received some thoughtful responses.  Here’s an example…

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