Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reading nonfiction, especially biographies and autobiographies (SOL4.6), so today students in Ms. White’s class created biography blogs with an embedded animated talking person from Voki. First I showed them how to log into their blogs. Every student and teacher in Henrico has their own blog. Once we were logged in, I explained how to change the title and other blog settings. Then we created our first blog post. I wanted to show them how they could embed something in a blog post, so we went to Voki and made an animated talking famous person. They had actually already researched someone for another project, so they used that person for their Voki. We discussed ways to make the character resemble the person by changing their skin color, hair, and clothing. Then we added a pertinent background and typed a few sentences for the person to say about their accomplishments. When we were finished, we copied the embed code and went back to our blogs. I showed them how to paste in the embed code using the “code” button (press the “code” button at the beginning and end of the code). Finally they published their blog post and shared the link on Google classroom so their classmates could see them. You can take a look at them here.

Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reading nonfiction, especially biographies and autobiographies (SOL4.6), so today students in Ms. White’s class created biography blogs with an embedded animated talking person from Voki. First I showed them how to log into their blogs. Every student and teacher in Henrico has their own blog. Once we were logged in, I explained how to change the title and other blog settings. Then we created our first blog post. I wanted to show them how they could embed something in a blog post, so we went to Voki and made an animated talking famous person. They had actually already researched someone for another project, so they used that person for their Voki. We discussed ways to make the character resemble the person by changing their skin color, hair, and clothing. Then we added a pertinent background and typed a few sentences for the person to say about their accomplishments. When we were finished, we copied the embed code and went back to our blogs. I showed them how to paste in the embed code using the “code” button (press the “code” button at the beginning and end of the code). Finally they published their blog post and shared the link on Google classroom so their classmates could see them. You can take a look at them here.