Voki in the Classroom

I figured out a great way to incorporate Voki with my ELL students. I tried it today, actually. As a beginning of the day activity, I'm going to play a Voki for my kids that is all in English. They are to listen and write what they hear. I think this will be an awesome way to get them to practice their listening, writing, and reading skills. Here's the one we did today. The message is simple enough for them to understand and attempt to write it correctly. 




Something else I plan to do is implement these Vokis into my class blog. This way, they can practice listening and typing what they hear. Should be fun!

Does anyone have other ideas as to how I might use this great tool with my ELL students? I'd love to hear suggestions. Thanks! 

English Voki!

 VOKI!

After seeing some people create Vokis, I decided to experiment with the tool myself. I created this voki as an example of what I might create to use with my ELL students. 

I had a hard time recording my voice on the Voki itself, so I saved a file of a voice recording and then uploaded it onto the site.

For those of you who have created Vokis, did you run into the same problem? I'd love to know what I was doing wrong!