Our last post showed how to add a Voki speaking avatar to your blog sidebar using a Text box widget. Why? Because voki avatars are cool and lots of fun to create.

Adding a Voki to your blog sidebar gives a “human element” to the site — your readers can now hear your voice. However if students create the Vokis, or you want to use a Voki for giving instructions to students, you are more likely to want to add them to posts or pages on your blog.

Ideas for using Vokis in an educational context in your classroom are summarized in our previous post.

Embedding a Voki in Post or PAge

  1. Register for an account at Voki and create your own Voki.
  2. Grab the code of your Voki for embedding into Wordpress (use large size Voki).voki1.jpg
  3. On your blog dashboard, go to Write > Write A Post or Write A Page
  4. Completely write your post adding all text and images including adding your categories, tags and post title.
  5. It’s best to add any code you want to embed as the last step just before you click publish as you’re less likely to have problems.
  6. Click on Save and View this Post to do any final edits on your post.
  7. Click on HTML tab.
  8. Paste the embed code from Voki into your post where you want it to appear then immediately press Publish. When viewed on your site your voki will appear in your post.

Image of Inserting Voki into posts

Please note

Voki avatars embedded in posts are stripped out by feed readers like Google Reader so it is good practice to let your readers know that you have added a voki to a post and include a link to its original location (i.e. code you copied from Notepad enclosed in the quotes after src= is the URL address of your voki).

For example you might say:

If my voki has been removed by your feed reader, you can check it out here.

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FINAL THOUGHT

We hope you enjoy creating your voki avatars and adding them to your blogs. Please let us know how you go.

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