Voki

[|Voki] is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create talking avatars. There are many ways to customize your avatar with lots of choices for character style and look, clothing, background and speech. You can even upload your own voice or record with a microphone right onto the site. Kids love it, but one **caveat: Users need to be 13 or older to register to save and publish their avatars.** However, if you have students younger than 13, you can save their avatars on your own account.

by: a Baldwin student
 * Henry Vizz**: (a 21st Century Hades)

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I am Hades, the Lord of the underworld. But now people call me Henry Vizz. I have an Infinity convertible, and I own a funeral home and make a lot of money, which I love to spend. It reminds me of my personality back in Greece, because I owned all the underground treasures. I have a wife, Claire (Persephone) and two children, Andrew, 18 months, and Alana, 2 years old. We have a mansion in Beverly Hills, where Aaron Cupids (Eros) comes to live with us in the summer. We have another home in the Bahamas where we live in the winter. We have chocolate, yellow, and black labs named Cocoa, Vanilla, and Midnight.

I care about my family; I visit my little brother Jack Thunder (Zeus) in Tahiti or New York, and my other younger brother Peter Jones (Poseidon), who lives in Fiji in an Underwater Hotel as well as Beverly Hills. Zeus, Poseidon, and I are brothers, but we say we grew up together in the 21st century. I am sporty which I was not in Greece. I play soccer, tennis, squash, and swim. I just love the 21st Century.



http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/hades.html by a Baldwin student
 * Lily Olympia** (a 21st Century Hera)

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My name is Lily Olympia but in ancient Greece you would have known me as Hera, Queen of goddesses and marriage. I live in a brownstone house on 555 Forty-third Street on the Upper East side of New York. I was very, very famous in 2006, and I’m going to tell you why. All my life I went to weddings. As a flower girl, bridesmaid and even a bride, my biggest dream was always to be a wedding dress designer. When I say I was a bride, I’m talking about Jack Thunder, the man who divorced me in 2000. He was a very wealthy man but he had no heart. After we divorced, I began dating and met Herald Wing, a very nice man who still sends me flowers every week.

My hobbies include matching couples and making dresses for the neighbor’s dolls. My neighbor is named Amelia, a little girl, who lives right across the street. I love to make hunting outfits for Amelia’s hunting group. Another hobby of mine is learning about the sky, planets, and stars.

My best friend is Apollo Sonnet, who went to NYU, which is very close to Sheffield, where I went to college. I had to spend five years in college, taking six classes a day. It was very hard. I worked and worked to get into the fashion business and I did.

After college, I went to work for famous designer, Vera Wang. At Vera’s store, my co-workers were Aaron Cupids, and Pearl Dite. They helped me with designs and Aaron Cupids even helped me communicate with Herald online. Aaron has his own dating website that I use to chat with my boyfriend, Herald. Pearl was also my model for fashion shows.

I worked for Vera many years. Finally, Vera Wang came into my office and said that I was ready to run my own dress design business. I was ecstatic and wanted to build a store right away.

After two years of construction, bills, and interviews with many people, my shop was finished and ready for business. My store was called Olympia Designs at 1701 Park Avenue on the Lower West side of New York. My first week, the shop was booming. Customers loved my dresses and I sold 40% of my merchandise. The dresses and wedding outfits I made were simple, yet elegant. My main fabrics were silk and lace. Though they are very different they always look fabulous together.

So that’s how I became the famous Lily Olympia. My story had a good ending. My wonderful boyfriend Herald Wing proposed to me on May 5th 2007. I was the happiest I had ever been in my life and I will never forget that day. After the proposal, I packed up my shop and went to live with Herald in Oregon. The store became a great sensation in Oregon.