Let' s make a voki

Sometimes you may need to present yourself or another person for a project of yours. Like we are doing right now with 6th Grade in our eTwinning project Famous people in Europe. It' s time for our famous persons to present themselves. So, let’ s make a voki to give them a voice!

 

Vokis are talking avatars, or talking pictures that represent somebody on the internet. You can use them for your homework and your projects. Making – or “customizing” – a voki is fun and free!

INSTRUCTIONS

•  First, look up information about your famous person’ s life. Don’ t copy paste anything! Write a simple text in your notebook, half a page long, based on what you have found
• Go to https://www.voki.com/site/create
• From the menu on the left click on the face to choose a face for your famous person. Don’ t choose anything that has a star on it – it’ s not free!
• Click on the clothes to choose clothes and accessories
• Click on the picture to choose a background picture
• Click on the palette to change the colour of the skin, hair, eyes, mouth…
• Now the difficult part: click on the speaker to give your famous person a voice.

Here, you have two options:

1. Either type a text about your famous person’ s life and choose a man’ s or a woman’ s voice below your voki. Make sure you don’ t forget full stops or commas and you don’ t make mistakes, otherwise the “voice” will sound strange and wrong.
2. Or you can use your microphone to allow voki to record your own voice while you are reading your text.

• After you have customized your voki’ s appearance and voice click Save (Let’ s hope your voki looks and sounds like your famous person!)
• Give your character a name and click Save
• In the little box that opens, click NO, thanks, continue as a guest

• Click the URL button to copy it (as you can see in my picture)
• Share it with your partners or friends. 

That’ s all!

Our Vokis

In the computer world, an avatar is a character that represents an online user. Avatars are used in multiplayer gaming, online communities, and Web forums. A voki is a speaking avatar. Click the Play button below to hear my avatar explain how you can make a similar one. You can also read my detailed instructions here.

Look at another example with Nadine, Kostas and Mark here and, if you don' t remember how to post a comment, watch the video here.

THE STUDENTS' VOKIS

After solving the usual problems with our old PC' s which were not working, here are the students' vokis! They are talking about the place where they live and compare it with other places.

Mark, Nadine and Kostas - 3 Internet friends

The 5th Graders remember Mark, Nadine and Kostas for sure!
Why don' t you meet them, too? Today they are talking about their cities and their parents' jobs.

Mark: Hello there! As you both know, I live in London, a very big city.. My father
is a shop owner and he always goes to work on foot. His bookstore is in our
neighbourhood. Lucky fellow......
Kostas: I live in Athens and our flat is in Nea Ionia, a suburb of Athens. My
mum, who is a bank clerk in the city centre, usually drives to work and it takes
her over an hour to get there. She doesn’t use public transport. I don’t think
it’s a good idea she drives to work. And she has huge problems in finding a
parking place every day!
Nadine: Well, my family and I live in the centre of Marseilles, which is a big city
in the south of France. My parents work in a factory outside the city and they
go to work by bus. Many of their colleagues drive to work but it seems to me
my parents are doing the right thing. It’s better to take the bus - the traffic is
so heavy!