Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Studies show that using technology in education improves students' achievements. Voki is a unique tool to engage your students in creative expressions. As Albert Einstein once said: "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

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Voki is intended for non-commercial use. For more info, see our privacy policy. For business products, please visit SitePal.com.

Voki is a combination of "vox", which is Latin for voice, and "Loki", which is the prankster god in Norse Mythology. For more about Loki, see Wikipedia's Loki page.

No. Voki is a free service, and will remain free to use, for all educators and students. Currently, Voki scenes that you embed are also ad-free!

It's easy! From any page, click "Create" (top left). We made Voki extremely user friendly, so just follow the steps. Customize your character, give it a voice (make sure to save by clicking DONE), choose a background and a player, and click Publish! Be sure to register for your free account. If you have any questions, we encourage you to visit the Teachers' Corner. Many Voki savvy educators will be happy to guide you through your first steps with us.

The new Voki for Education provides tons of publishing options! Now, you don't even need a website or blog to share your Voki! When you're done creating and saving your Voki, we'll show you many options for publishing or sharing a link to your Voki. You'll see the same options when you’re in the "My Voki" section. Just choose the size of your Voki, and select the destination. It's that easy!

Sure! Students age 13 or over can create their own account. As a teacher, you can also create a class account and share your login information with students. Please see our Privacy Policy (Section 8) for more on collecting information from Children. Visit the Teachers' Corner to find out how your worldwide colleagues are involving their students.

• E-mail them a Voki! Once you are done creating your Voki choose the "send to a friend" option
• Write about Voki in your blog. Don't forget to include your own Voki examples. You can also visit our Facebook Page.
• Tweet about Voki. Make sure to include the Voki link! You can also join us on Twitter

There are endless ways to use Voki in the classroom. Voki can be used for any subject at every level. Some teachers use it to greet students in the morning, some use it to record students reciting poems – the list is endless. Voki can be used as far as your imagination will take it. For ideas on how educators around the world are using Voki, visit the Voki Lesson Plan database and the Teachers' Corner.

Check out the Voki Lesson Plan database.

Voki is intended solely and exclusively for personal, non-commercial use. If you run a business website where you sell a product or service, or if you run a site about a business, Voki is not for you. However, we do have a product called SitePal! SitePal is a feature-rich service that allows website owners to get custom avatars on their site. SitePal is proven to improve visitor engagement and business results. SitePal is based on a monthly membership. For more about SitePal memberships, click here.

Let us know! We have a section just for that in the Teachers' Corner.