Voki is one of my Top Ten Web tools for teachers. With Voki, students can create personalized avatars that speak. They can type in text or they can actually record their own voice to their voki. It's super cool!
Here is a voki I made for fun. It took all of 10 minutes. Just click the play button!
I plan to use Voki with my first graders when we do our Poetry unit in April. Students will use voki to publish one poem. So their avatar will read their poem and we can publish it on our class blog. Cool, huh??
Other ways you can use voki with your kiddos: Retelling stories, character traits, fluency practice, publishing writing...lots of fun ways!