VOKI
MFL & SPEAKING
CHARACTERS

VOKI
• What is it?:
• Age: 13-17 needs parental
consent first
• Email: real
• Pupil access: c2k-ok (although
images may be blocked)

VOKI
• Can be accessed at home
and school.
• Necessitates computer-pupil
interaction = motivation
• Pupils have ownership – a
unique creation.
• Facilitates the transition
from teacher-centred, class-
based learning.
• Quieter pupils are heard.
• Provides a “mask” – a
distancing effect.

José Picardo, www.asísehace.net
I was very careful to introduce the idea of using Voki to my
pupils so that they would be immediately engaged and
enthused by the prospect of using it. I therefore decided to
plan for serendipity and cheat slightly by making them think
it was their idea to use Voki all along: I purposefully showed
them a Voki during a lesson which had been recorded by
my three year old son speaking in Spanish. I then waited
until one of my pupils suggested that they could use Voki in
their Spanish lesson, what a brilliant idea!
From this moment on, I deliberately tried to become a
facilitator or a collaborator:

GETTING STARTED
• Go to www.voki.com
• Click on “Register”.

• Choose your character by clicking on the
dice.
• Change the look and style by clicking on
“Customize your character”.
• Choose a background by clicking on
“Background”.

• Give your Voki a voice by clicking on one
of the options.
• If choosing text to speech, type in your
text, choose your accent / language and
choose your voice.

SAVING & SHARING
• Click “Publish”.
• Click on “For most sites use this code”.
Copy the code.
• Paste the code into an email and email it
to yourself or others.
• Use this code to upload it to your wiki

PUPIL USE
• Remind pupils not to use their full name,
when registering
• Get them to click “Publish”, then click on
“For most sites use this code”. Copy the
code.
• Paste the code into an email and email it
to you
• You can then use this code to upload it to
your wiki