Are you keeping up??
Posted by Miss W. on March 7, 2010
We’ve now had about three lessons in IT this year. We have created blogs, made sure they were linked on the sidebar of our Middle School blog and learnt how to log in. We checked out the dashboard to change our password, how our comments were to be moderated, changed theme and blog name, then added widgets on the sidebar.
We have discussed being internet savvy and what sort of nicknames we should have on our blog. Now you are going to create an avatar to represent you in a positive way on the internet. Your readers will start thinking of you the way you create your avatar.
Because we very rarely meet face to face (f2f), we still have to give some visual cues as to what we look like. But as teachers, we have to make sure you are being internet safe and that usually means not putting any pictures of actual students on the web, and if we do, having parental permission to do so. We certainly don’t name the students in the pictures.
For example, here are some avatars I have made from various websites. They all represent me.
![MyHero[1]](http://sormid67.edublogs.org/files/2010/03/MyHero1-150x150.jpg)
- Build your wild self – middle left
- DoppelMe
- Mini-mizer – middle right
- The Hero Factory – far left
- Grabbabeast
From abi-station:
- Iconmaker
- Illustrationmaker
- Avatarmaker
- Moeruavatar - far right
If under 13, sorry you can’t register for these mentioned below. But over 13, need parental or guardian permission.
14 or older with parental permission
So now it is time for you to create your own avatar. You can then add it as a blog avatar to appear on your blog. You can also add it as a comment or user avatar so it appears wherever you leave a comment on someone else’s blog. Some websites are for students 13 and older so make sure you choose one that is for your age group.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Hi Miss W!
How are you?
Thank you very much, and I shall look around for a birthday cake widget….
I will be sure to continue blogging in the future, since I first started I was hooked!
You have some awesome avatars that you made! I know I enjoy experimenting making different avatars…
-Dominique
March 10th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Hi, I hope your classes have as much fun as our class had today. We made our avatars. We laughed and laughed over our many creations. If you have a moment visit our blog, watch our video, and enjoy a laugh with us! http://partlowpowerhouse.edublogs.org
March 13th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Mrs Partlow,
You can have both your username and user avatar linked to your blog if you go to your profile and add your blog URL under website. This means students just click on your name or user avatar and it will take them to your blog.
March 27th, 2010 at 5:24 am
Hey Miss Wyatt
I would like to thank you for commenting on my blog. I also think that I am keeping up with the challenges..
Jessica
April 17th, 2010 at 3:53 am
Those avatars all look great. I have used some of those avatar creators.Thank you for the info and the examples.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:22 am
Hello I am Jacob 162 you have commented on my classes blog before thank you for posting all of the avatar making websites i am going to try to do all of them. I hope to keep i touch and you should visit our group blog. Peace and love from http://www.mrmillersblog.com thanks again.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:36 am
I love what you’re doing! I’m so afraid of being creative. I don’t mind doing the ‘techie’ things- it’s the creative stuff that causes me so much pain.
You are doing a terrific job of documenting y’alls journey.
I apologize for ‘lurking’ and not posting before now! I’ll do better!
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