"Does the March task involve Vokis? WHat is the March task?"
Voices Of The World
VOTW was created by Sharon Tonner, a lecturer at University of Dundee to connect children using their voices rather than text and images.
LATEST NEWS
Welcome to Voices of the World 2010 -2011
October Task is now available.
September Task has now gone live
September task is now available
May example:
**New area: Collaboration corner**
**Let's make a book together.**
VOTW book by us!
TUTORIALS
Forum
Collaboration Corner - April 2010 13 Replies
Started by Barbara Bashour. Last reply by Barbara Bashour Apr 22, 2010.
New Logo 15 Replies
Started by Anna Karidi Pirounaki. Last reply by Barbara Bashour Apr 2, 2010.
New Tasks 3 Replies
Started by shirley campbell-morgan. Last reply by Panther ET Feb 26, 2010.
Latest Activity
Kara Batchelor left a comment for Sharon Tonner"No, we never got the voki's to work. :( I am not sure what the problem is. Our tech coordinator thought maybe something changed with our content filter."
Johnna Noles left a comment for Sharon Tonner"Sharon, we are having a hard time participating this year with 19 five year olds. I have not been able to find a way to make it work for the children instead of me doing all the work. If I change grade levels, we will try again. Thanks."
Helen Absalom left a comment for Sharon Tonner"Hello Sharon,Yes, I can confirm that I do now have a class and we will start working on the March task on Monday. I have a question. I would like to recommend your site to a large group of teachers around the world. I attended the ECIS ESL and…"
Dana Novotny left a comment for Sharon Tonner"Hi Sharon,
Sorry for the lack of communication.
Yes, I hope to participate in the March task.
We do our mandatory state testing here in
March, so everything is a little crazy the
month leading up to that.I am looking forward
to the March…"
Welcome To Voices Of The World
Welcome To Voices Of The World, a place to connect educators around the world.
This network was created by Sharon Tonner, now a University Lecturer, to connect children together using their voices rather than the written or typed word. It was also created to enable children to develop an appreciation of different languages, accents and dialects from around the world.
For the next few months the project will be led by student teachers at the University of Dundee.
The aim is to release a task at the beginning of the month with all contributions completed by the end of the month. Contributions are in the form of embedded code which are sent to Jennifer who then places them on the VOTW wikispace.
The VOTW wikispace for that month is not released until the last day of the month so that all members can look and view all contributions from around the world.
If you would like to join, you need to have primary school children to work with who are not in a participating school.
The aim of VOTW is to hopefully allow children to appreciate the voices of other children from all around the world.
This network was created by Sharon Tonner, now a University Lecturer, to connect children together using their voices rather than the written or typed word. It was also created to enable children to develop an appreciation of different languages, accents and dialects from around the world.
For the next few months the project will be led by student teachers at the University of Dundee.
The aim is to release a task at the beginning of the month with all contributions completed by the end of the month. Contributions are in the form of embedded code which are sent to Jennifer who then places them on the VOTW wikispace.
The VOTW wikispace for that month is not released until the last day of the month so that all members can look and view all contributions from around the world.
If you would like to join, you need to have primary school children to work with who are not in a participating school.
The aim of VOTW is to hopefully allow children to appreciate the voices of other children from all around the world.
Blog Posts
February 2011 Task
Dear All,
the student primary teachers have created the task for February on the theme 'love' since Monday 14th is Valentine's Day.
An example if the task is on the VOTW site:
http://votw.wikispaces.com/february2011
The task is to create five vokis (voki.com) where each one says, in your…
ContinuePosted by Sharon Tonner on February 12, 2011 at 22:53 — 1 Comment
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Just a gentle reminder that this network is for the teachers involved in VOTW and not for the children.
I am currently working on the children's area with all our completed vokis. The plan is to diplay all the vokis in one area - wikispace. I am then going to take all the audio from each voki and create a podcast so that it is like a show. I can do this for everyone this month as each file is very small but in later tasks there may be an element of only selecting specific voices for the podcast but still displaying the main task.
Just a wee bit background on the project, i initally created VOTW as an E-twinning project to unite voices around the world. to make it the world I need to branch out of Europe hence why all you lovely teachers are involved.
Because the site is popular I have to adapt to the interest and realise that some of my inital ideas might not be feasible anymore due to the size as it would not be interesting to the children to listen to a podcast that lasts over an hour. When using different voices and languages children need to be kept focussed and entertained.
To do this I will incorporate a different piece of software each month that you can use from the internet so that not only are the children participating in a global project using their voice they are also learning new ICT skills and hopefully some teachers too.
Briefly, the next themes are National Anthem, Nursery Rhyme, Jingle Bells, Hopes For The Future etc. All these will be in the child's language but this should not present a barrier to understanding as the children have already completed the task and know understand the concept.
The power of the voice and sound are amazing tools if used in a structured environment.
I hope this answers some questions and puts the project into a perspective. Sharon
I am currently working on the children's area with all our completed vokis. The plan is to diplay all the vokis in one area - wikispace. I am then going to take all the audio from each voki and create a podcast so that it is like a show. I can do this for everyone this month as each file is very small but in later tasks there may be an element of only selecting specific voices for the podcast but still displaying the main task.
Just a wee bit background on the project, i initally created VOTW as an E-twinning project to unite voices around the world. to make it the world I need to branch out of Europe hence why all you lovely teachers are involved.
Because the site is popular I have to adapt to the interest and realise that some of my inital ideas might not be feasible anymore due to the size as it would not be interesting to the children to listen to a podcast that lasts over an hour. When using different voices and languages children need to be kept focussed and entertained.
To do this I will incorporate a different piece of software each month that you can use from the internet so that not only are the children participating in a global project using their voice they are also learning new ICT skills and hopefully some teachers too.
Briefly, the next themes are National Anthem, Nursery Rhyme, Jingle Bells, Hopes For The Future etc. All these will be in the child's language but this should not present a barrier to understanding as the children have already completed the task and know understand the concept.
The power of the voice and sound are amazing tools if used in a structured environment.
I hope this answers some questions and puts the project into a perspective. Sharon
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