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 critically thinking skills especially when so much is geared towards other subjects. I didn't want that to stop me and decided the best thing to do would be to take those things and cross them into mathematics so we could be more involved with all the cool math out there.
My future plans for these Voki's will probably be to use them during presentations during project based learning. Have you used Voki in your classroom? If so, what did you do?
Have a great vacation everyone!
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 critically thinking skills especially when so much is geared towards other subjects. I didn't want that to stop me and decided the best thing to do would be to take those things and cross them into mathematics so we could be more involved with all the cool math out there.
My future plans for these Voki's will probably be to use them during presentations during project based learning. Have you used Voki in your classroom? If so, what did you do?
Have a great vacation everyone!
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