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Voki Your Poem
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[8th Grade Poetry Vokis] [7th Grade Poetry Vokis]

So, you've finished up your poetry and you're looking for something to do. Let's have a Voki read one of your poems! What's a Voki? A Voki is a lifelike avatar that can also speak. That's a sample Voki above. If you have a recording of your own voice or a microphone hooked to the computer you can give your Voki your own voice. We're not currently set up to do that so we will use the text feature and choose a voice for our Voki from the options available at Voki.com.

Here's what you need to do:

1. Open your Poetry document and select one of your poems. Some hints on picking a poem:
   • This should be a fairly short poem since the amount of text you can enter is limited. 
   • Your Haiku or your Acrostic poem (unless you have a long name) might be good poems to use. 
   • You could use just a portion of a poem, for example, one stanza of your free verse poem (if you did a free verse poem), if you wish. If you use a portion of a poem, make sure that it does not stop mid-sentence.
   • Do not use poems that are inappropriate in any way or poems that have your full name or the full name of any other St. Martin's student.
2. Head over to Voki.com and click on the Get Started button.
3. Customize your character. Select an avatar and choose color options, clothing, bling, etc. You might want to choose an avatar that enhances the theme of your poem but that is not required.
4. Give it a voice - select the Text option (2nd from left) and copy and paste your poem into the text box.
   • Make sure that all of the text is copied in since the site will truncate your text if it is too long. Don't bother with a poem title and do not include your full name!
   • If you don't have punctuation in your poem, add it into the pasted text or the avatar won't know where to pause. If there are no pauses, your Voki will probably not be posted on the site.
5. Select a voice and add any effects you like. USE ENGLISH ONLY. Test this out until you like the result. If I can not understand your poem then your Voki will not be posted on the site.
6. Select a background and the player you prefer. Do not use backgrounds that show alcohol or anything else inappropriate for school.
7. Click the Publish Button.
8. In the Name Your Scene box, enter StM Your Grade Your Computer Number (for example, if you are in 7th grade and sit at computer 10, you would enter StM 7th 10). 
9. Select No Thanks in the You Just Created a Voki Character window. We are not going to create accounts.
10. Make sure the Medium Size option is selected and then copy the code displayed in the For Most Sites Use This Code box by clicking in the box and pressing CTRL+C. Fill out the following form pasting the code in the Your Voki Code box and click Send to email the code to me so that I can add your Voki to the site. 

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