If you are Voki Classroom user, you are probably accustomed to the My Account tab. Let’s take a look a good look at the My Account tab and see what you can do! To get to the My Account tab, just follow these steps:
- Go to www.voki.com.
- Click on the Voki Classroom tab and log in to your account.
- Click on the My Account tab.
Personal Information
Your personal information is visible in the Student view and the Lesson page. Under this section, you can change your salutation and your first and last name. You can even upload your own picture! The picture can be a picture of you or any pictures that represents your class. It can also be left blank.
To change your personal information, click Edit, input your new information, and remember to click Save.
Personal Settings
Under personal settings, you can edit your email address and your password. The email address displayed under this section is the email address you use to log into your Voki and Voki Classroom account. Be sure to use a valid email address so that you can receive your account information! The password you chose will be used to into your Voki and Voki Classroom account.
To change your email and your password, click Edit, input your new email/password, and remember to click Save. You will receive a notification informing you that your email address has been updated.
Note: Do not give your password away to your students. Each student has his/her own login ID and password for Voki Classroom. 
Account Settings
Account setting is where you can find information about your Voki Classroom account. Here, you can find out when your account expires, what kind of payment method you have on file, enable or disable automatic billing, how many student accounts and classes you have, your account ID, how long you’ve been a valued Voki Classroom user and past invoices.
If your Voki Classroom account is expiring, you can click on Extend. Then select the subscription you want and proceed with checkout. If you have a payment method on file, you can enable to disable automatic billing. By checking the automatic billing box, the payment method you have on file will automatically be charged when your Voki Classroom account is about to expire. Your Voki Classroom account will be extended by the same time period you selected at sign up.
Some Voki Classroom users have more than 100 students or more than 5 classes. To add more student accounts or classes, simply click Add More next to the student or class limit you wish to increase. You
will then need to select the number of student accounts or class you wish to purchase.
Don’t have a Voki Classroom account? Sign up now for our 15-Day Free Trial!
Until next time,
The Voki Team
The Squirrel by Anonymous
The Squirrel
by Anonymous
Whisky, frisky,
Hippity hop;
Up he goes
To the tree top!
Whirly, twirly,
Round and round,
Down he scampers
To the ground.
Furly, curly
What a tail!
Tall as a feather
Broad as a sail!
Where’s his supper?
In the shell,
Snappity, crackity,
Out it fell.
Don’t forget to submit your favorite poem as told by Voki! To submit your poem, send the complete embed code along with the poem title and author’s name to feedback@voki.com.
Guest Blogger: Phil Timmons from Byte Me
I’m always looking for new ways to share and communicate in ways that will be engaging enough to keep the attention of my lively bunch of 7 & 8 year olds. We use our Learning Platform extensively for communication and sharing news and information and as it has grown it is getting more likely that areas will get missed or forgotten. I have also had a problem with allowing access to the Learning Platform to younger children where reading levels make it difficult for them to find and navigate to the correct areas.
Voki has been the answer to all the problems for me in one place. I created a character for our Learning Platform (we use frog primary) called Frogbot. He is a little robot Voki to act as a guide and a way to share news. The character appears around the Platform offering advice and direction to pupils and staff. The areas that were getting lost and forgotten are now being used again and children who find reading difficult now enjoy using the Learning Platform where they were somewhat reluctant before. The Internet can be a very ‘wordy’ place!
After embedding the Voki into our Learning Platform I started wondering how else I could use Voki. I happened to be doing speech and dialogue at the time and thought Voki would lend itself nicely to the topic. I created a new character called Doug who had a lot to say for himself. He was originally going to be used online until I stumbled upon a YouTube video. I use Smart Notebook and found out that there is a widget that you can download and embed your Voki straight into a Smart file. I used the Voki on my Smart page for the children to write the sentences using the correct punctuation. We used the idea then to do some further work about using alternatives for the word said and added them to the sentences we had written. Massive thank you goes to Doug for helping teach my class how to use speech marks and keep the engaged and excited at the same time.
I’m now looking at using Voki to make characters with the children to make conversations we can embed into Smart for the class to write up the next day.
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Phil runs the site Byte Me with his partners to provide helpful advice and suggestions for teachers.
Follow Phil on Twitter: @Bytemeict
Experiment by Danielle Sensier
Experiment
by Danielle Sensier
At school we’re doing growing things
with cress.
Sprinkly seeds in plastic pots
of cotton wool.
Kate’s cress sits up on the sill
she gives it water.
Mine is shut inside the cupboard
dark and dry.
Now her pot has great big clumps
of green
mine hasn’t
Teacher calls it Science
I call it mean!
Don’t forget to submit your favorite poem as told by Voki! To submit your poem, send the complete embed code along with the poem title and author’s name to feedback@voki.com.
National Poetry Month Celebration
It’s time to celebrate National Poetry Month! Last year, we have Voki users shared some of their favorite poetry with us. Take a look at them below:
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
We would love for you to send in more of your favorite poems. Just send us the embed code of your Voki poet to feedback@voki.com! Be sure to include the title, entire poem, and the poet’s name!
In addition to posting your favorite poems, we will be posting a fun Tip of the Week with a great poetry activity to do with your students! So be on the lookout for them!
Until next time,
The Voki Team
Voki Tip of the Week: Voki on Popplet
We know that some of our Voki teachers use Popplet in their class! What if you want to have your Voki character there? We have the solution here!
Direct Link
- Go to www.voki.com.
- Create and publish your Voki.
- Select your Voki size and copy your Voki link.
- Go to www.popplet.com and sign in.
- Click to Make new popplet and double click to create a popple.
- Paste your Voki link into the popple.
- Hover your mouse over the Voki link and click on Go to link.
Now you go to your Voki from Popplet!
Note: If you want your Voki to appear in full screen, read this Tip of the week to learn how!
Voki Video
- To save your Voki as a video file, check out this Tip of the week.
- Upload it on YouTube.
Go to www.popplet.com and sign in.- Click to Make new popplet and double click to create a popple.
- Click on the upload icon.
- Click on the YouTube icon.
- Search for your video.
- Select your video and click Add to popple.
Now you can view your Voki directly on Popplet!
If you have any feedback, comments, or suggestion for Voki, send us an email at feedback@voki.com!
Until next time,
The Voki Team
Guest Blogger: Joann Claspill
Every once in a while, a new tech tool comes along that really makes an impact with me and my students. www.voki.com has been that website for me since last school year.
I discovered Voki when I was doing the novel study for “No Talking”, by Andrew Clements. I was online searching for activities to enrich and engage my students and saw that someone has made Vokis for the 2 main characters. I checked them out and was hooked! I used these to introduce the characters to my students, and then using Voki took off in my classroom.
We did another novel study on “Julie of the Wolves” later in the year. To work on summarizing text, I made a Julie voki (the main character) and had her summarize the chapter for the class. This was the “I do it” stage. Next, we developed a Julie voki together and posted it – the “We Do It” stage. Finally, it was my students’ turn.
Student One chose to use his own voice for recording, student two used one of the many, many choices available on Voki as his characters’ voice. The abundance of choices is one of the reasons we love Voki. Students not only choose voice, they choose characters physical traits, backgrounds and more. There are even animal avatars to pick from!
Besides using Voki as a tool for reading instruction, I use it frequently to review or introduce History ideas. If we are learning about roles played in a war, I create Vokis to reinforce concepts to the students. Something as simple as hearing it from a Voki avatar makes it more interesting than just hearing it from me. I also review vocabulary terms using Voki.
My students this school year are just getting into Voki and I can’t wait to see what develops. The site is user friendly, the students love creating these and I love the engaged learning that takes place when I use Voki in my classroom!
Joann Claspill
Langford Elementary
5th Grade
