Snapshots of Technology

Voki your Class or Class web page

June 2, 2007

I love this site. It seems to be popping up on blogs everywhere so why not mine? Voki.com is great. You can create short podcasts that are animated with a character you create! Could you imagine the uses for this in a classroom?

Just think you could put a daily message on your teacher web page, start class with a daily voki “Do now” activity with your voice or a student’s giving directions, create a voki speaking in spanish or french to quiz students on vocabulary. I could go on and on…

Get a Voki now!
Here’s some info about voki.com from the “about us” section of the web page.

What’s with the name? Voki is a combination of “vox”, which is Latin for voice, and “Loki“, which, is a prankster character in Norse Mythology. 

Who made Voki? Voki is brought to you by the folks at Oddcast, a New York based company that has been creating speaking characters on the web for years. These are the same people behind the popular Careerbuilder Monk-e-mail.

Will Voki always be free? Yes, you will always be able to come and create a character for free at Voki. However, we may offer special items or characters for sale at some point. Also some of the things you can do with your Voki, like downloading it to your phone, may cost money. It is also likely that you will see different kinds of sponsorship on the site. No matter what we do to make money through Voki, we’ll make sure we keep you in the loop, get your feedback, and try not to do anything that makes Voki less entertaining to have.

Can anyone use Voki? Voki is solely and exclusively for personal, non-commercial use only.

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