In keeping with our themes of children’s rights and social justice in social studies this year, we are moving on to discuss the United Nations. After reviewing the material below you are going to combine your knowledge and expertise in technology with your newly acquired knowledge of the United Nations, by creating a speaking avatar or Voki. Your Voki will inform me, your classmates, and the rest of the world about your understanding of the United Nations.
Assignment Steps:
- Visit www.voki.com
- Click on the create button in the top left hand corner
- Next, customize your character by gender, hairstyle, and clothing
- Once you are happy with your character click done
- Now it’s time to add the voice of your character. I would like you to make your character talk about important points you have recently learned about the United Nations
- You can either record your own voice or use the text to speech box.
- Once you’ve selected an appropriate voice for your character click done
- You can now publish your work – click publish
- You will be prompted to name your work: Use firstname and UN in capitals
- If you have not already created an account you will need to do so now – use your @mrlister.co.cc email address and DO NOT use your last name
- Once registered choose medium sized voki
- Copy all the text in the box labelled “For Most Sites Use This Code”
- Once you have the code for your Voki visit the following Google Document and paste your code under your name – http://bit.ly/hsohIT
Here is an example: