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We Voki'd

I just wanted to throw out a quick updated post about Voki.  I had a few days before school let out for the holidays to try Voki out with my students.  I made a cute little Voki to introduce the lesson: Terribly Cute isn't it! My plan was to have my students make their own Voki and talk me through a math problem.  I wanted to try something simple at first and then we will work on building what I can do with it later.  * I found it MUCH simpler to purchase Voki for my classroom.  I believe it was $30 for a year. * The one downfall I found was that students could only have 1 Voki each.  So they couldn't make several... bummer. The students LOVED creating their own Voki.  The crazier the better.  I had one student make a politically charged word problem with his Voki.  It made me laugh and I loved seeing their creativity come out. It really is hard as a math teacher to come up with different ways for students to use those critica...