Instructional Screencast Task Analysis/Content Outline and Script

This task analysis will outline the steps needed to introduce and learn how to use the
web 2.0 tool, Voki.
1. Open the Internet using any browser such as firefox, google chrome or internet
explorer
2. Go to www.voki.com
3. Examine and familiarize yourself with the the homepage, paying specific
attention to the tabs at the top of the page.
4. Watch the introductory video on the homepage
5. Sign up for a free Voki account by clicking the orange register button
6. Go to your email account and click on the confirmation email from Voki.
7. Go to www.voki.com and sign on using your username and password.
8. Create a digital avatar by choosing the face, hair, clothing and accessories for
your avatar.
9. Give your avatar a voice by recording and uploading your voice, text to type or
phoning in a message. Choose the male or female voice and accent that you like.
10. Listen to the voice and make changes as needed.
11. Publish your digital avatar by clicking on publish. You can send your avatar
through email, embed it on your wiki or blog account, or simply view your avatar
from the voki.com dashboard.
12. For lesson plan ideas, click the lesson plan tab. Click on a lesson that suits your
class. Print lesson.
13. Create first Voki.



How To Create a Digital Avatar Using Voki
Steps Action on Screen Narration
1 (Slide) Learning
Objectives
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2 (Slide) Web Tools For
the 21
st
Century
Classroom
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3 (Slide) What is Voki? What is Voki? Voki is a web technology that allows
you to create talking avatars. An avatar is a digital
representation of an alter ego or character. Lets look
at the website now.
4 (Slide) Getting Started
With Voki/Creating an
Account
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5 Screenshot Website So to get started with Voki, go to www.voki.com The
website is very straight forward and easy to use.
Take some time to familiarize yourself with the tabs
at the top of the page. These tabs will get you where
you need to go on the website. You can also listen to a
very short introduction video right here on the
homepage to get you started. the tabs at the top of
the page. These tabs will get you where you need to
go on the website. You can also listen to a very short
introduction video right here on the homepage to get
you started.
6 Website Screenshot At this time I suggest you pause the course and
create your free Voki account..click the orange
register button at the top right hand side of the page.
Here you will fill in your name, email address, and
create a password)
An activation link will be sent to your email. Open the
email and click the activation link. Now you are ready
to use Voki.

7 (Slide) And now a
message from Voki
***Digital Avatar speaks directly to students
here.
8 (Slide)
Creating/Designing
Your Voki
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9 Website Screenshot To create your first Voki click the create tab.
You will see a default character that has
already been randomly created by Voki. If
you want to use a random character click the
dice and a different character will appear
each time.
But the fun in using Voki is creating your own
character.

10 Website Screenshot There are several ways to customize your
digital avatar. By clicking these tabs you can
choose, face, hair, clothing, accessories and
even make-up.
You will notice that some characters have a
little graduation cap in the corner. This
means that these characters are only
available with paid accounts. Not to worry
however because there are more than enough
free characters to choose from.
Lets begin by customizing our character.
Click the tab that says customize. You can
choose the face, clothing and even add bling
to your character.
So lets choose a face. We will go through this
part pretty quickly. This is the fun part and
you can easily get lost playing around with
designing your character, but we dont want
to spend too much time here.
11 Website Screenshot If you click on the arrows, they will show you
the different categories of faces you can
choose such as animals, historical figures,
aliens, cartoon faces, and classic human faces.
So Lets choose this classic face. To change
her hair just click the hair icon. You can also
change the characters, clothing, mouth or
lips, jewelry, and even add glasses.
12 Website Screenshot As you can see there are many options for
creating and customizing your Voki.
Now lets give Voki a voice. You can add your
own voice through phone, you can text to
speech, or you can upload an audio file.
I like to use text to speech because I can give
my Voki a nice accent or change her voice.
13 Website Screenshot So lets try it out here. We will type in Hello,
my name is Voki! and listen to how it might
sound.
14 Digital Avatar on screen (Audio here is of the digital character saying,
Hello, my name is Voki.)

15 Website Screenshot If you like her voice, click done.
16 Website Screenshot You can also change the background color or
image. Click background to see the options
for different colors and images. At this time
lets learn how to publish your Voki.

17 (Silde) Publishing Your
Voki
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18 Website Screenshot Once you have finished designing your
Voki, click publish. Give your Voki a title,
and click save. If you want to share your
Voki with a friend, click send Voki here.
The recipient does not have to have an



account with Voki to receive your digital
avatar.

19 Website Screenshot You can publish your Voki to a number of
platforms such as Facebook, Twitter,
Google Plus, Wordpress, and Blogger.
If you want to share your Voki with a
friend, click share Voki here. The recipient
does not have to have an account with
Voki to receive your Voki.
20 Website Screenshot If you want to publish Voki to a blog like
blogger or wordpress or edublog, it is a
very simple step of copying and pasting the
code that you see here.
I have found that the best way to use voki
is by posting it on your blog or using Voki
right from the website.
21 Website Screenshot To explore ideas for lesson plans, click the
lesson plan tab. The lesson plan and
activity database is sorted by subject and
grade. Here you will find lots of ideas for
using Voki with in your classroom. Click
view lesson plan to take a closer look at
the lesson.
22 (Slide) Action Step I hope this was helpful in getting you
started with using Voki in your classroom.