Challenge 2 – Create an online identity
One of our responsibilities as a teacher, is to make sure you are safe while using the internet, both at school and at home, by teaching you certain skills and knowledge. But you also have a responsibility. That is to be internet savvy and protect your online identity.
Most schools do not allow students to have pictures of themselves on their blogs and websites. If they do, parental permission has to have been granted from all students in the picture. Instead, most teachers create an avatar with their students.
Avatars can come from a website on the internet or you can use an image editor or paint program to change a photo you have that represents you.
Activities for week 2
1. Create an appropriate avatar to represent yourself. Save the picture as either a .gif or .jpeg or .png . I noticed many of the challenge participants last year don’t have a blog avatar, but do have a user avatar.
- If using Edublogs, when you log-in to your blog dashboard, there is a link under the section “Getting started with Edublogs” that allows you to upload your blog avatar and user avatar in one easy step. If you are a user like author or editor under your class blog, you should be able to upload to user avatar but not blog avatar.
- Once you have uploaded a user avatar this will appear wherever you make a comment. Make sure you have your blog URL correctly written in your settings and profile. So from now on, people will be able to click on your avatar and go straight to your blog. But if your URL is wrong, you will miss out on some interesting visitors.
2. Now create a post to explain why this avatar represents you. If you are using a class blog, work with your teacher to create a post or page about your avatars. If you have saved the avatars on a drive at school, then your teacher could upload each of them as images with an explanation under each avatar. Make sure your teacher also creates an avatar.
3. If you created a Voki, then it can’t be added like an avatar. Check out this site if you want to add it to your sidebar and check out here if you want to add a Voki to a post or page. In both these posts, the most important thing is have everything ready in the post or page, including tags and categories before you insert the code under HTML and finally hit publish.
4. Still got time left this week, then make sure you visit the blogs of other participants. Leave me a comment here about some of the blogs you visited and what the interests were of the students you visited.
Remember the most important part of blogging is the conversation you begin and follow up on.
Any age can use these avatar sites:
- Build your wild self – top left
- DoppelMe
- Mini-mizer – top right
- The Hero Factory – top middle
From abi-station:
- Iconmaker
- Illustrationmaker
- Avatarmaker
- Moeruavatar - on my sidebar
If under 13, sorry you can’t register for these mentioned below. But over 13, need parental or guardian permission.
Thanks to this wiki which gave me many avatar websites to visit.
Reminder: Remember if writing a post or comment, mention challenge09 somewhere in your work.
Thanks to William, Jeff, Sam, Michael, Karen and Dale.
March 9, 2009 @ 5:05 pm
I was just wondering if it is possible for each student to have their own avatar if we are using a class blog or if we just need to collaborate and choose 1 avatar to represent all students
Thanks
Ms Jenkins
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March 10, 2009 @ 7:39 am
Hi!
Just a question , are theses avatars only for edublogs?
Thank you!
Kisses
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March 10, 2009 @ 8:53 am
hey thanx for putting my avatar up there as an example. i love flowers and the color purple so that was prefect!
sammm
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March 23, 2009 @ 11:44 am
Sorry, this is unrelated to this challenge, but I am new to blogging and couldn’t figure out another way to do this. Do you have students get permission slips from parents before you begin blogging with them? If so, would you mind sharing that document?
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May 9, 2009 @ 5:08 am
I was wondering what the avatar is for?
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May 18, 2009 @ 11:49 am
This is so confusing!
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January 20, 2010 @ 10:28 pm
The challenge looks terrific.
Checked the avatars for NSW block. I can only check K-6
These are OK
*Build Your Wildself
*Mini- Mizer
*Icon Maker
*Illustration Maker
*Tizme
*Voki
Blocked
*Doppel Me
*The Hero Factory
*Avatar Maker
*Moeruavatar
*Zwinky
Blocked for Teachers and Students
*Meez
*WEE World
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