Avatars

=AVATARS =

** Suggestions: **

 * **Have your students create a digital character(s)**
 * as a digital representation of themselves
 * as a character in a play or story
 * to add visual interest to their blog or wiki entries

** What is an avatar? ** It's a digital extension of yourself and your personality, represented by an object or image. Create a digital self-image that you can add to your profile. The avatar makers below either give you a code that you can embed in your wiki OR require that you take a screenshot which you can save to your computer and then upload to the wiki as an image. Upload to your wiki from your computer - go to pages & files tab (at top). Click on upload files (top left). Find file on your computer and click open; file will upload to wiki.
 * SCREENSHOT** - capture the item, in this case the avatar, on your screen as an image
 * MAC - Apple+shift+4, highlight are to be captured; item will be saved to desktop as "picture 1.png"; rename.
 * WINDOWS - use "print screen" + ALT buttosn to capture screen to clipboard; paste into a graphics program, like Paint; crop image and then save image as a .gif or .jpg file

Some Avatar Resources:

 * Face Your Mange Avatar ** [|http://faceyourmanga.com]
 * Simpsons Avatar** []
 * DoppelMe Avatar** [|http://doppelme.com]
 * Lego avatar** []
 * Yahoo! Avatar** [|http://avatars.yahoo.com]


 * FOR EXAMPLE: **

Click on link; select a language. Click on center of the screen OR "Faceyourmanga" link. Click on "create"; select a gender; Select preferences for hair, eyes, clothing, accessories, background and more. Click finish, then enter your email address to get an electronic copy of avatar Upload avatar to your wiki. Use in your profile.
 * [[image:MB_avatar_6-2010.jpg width="131" height="134" align="left"]]Face Your Mange Avatar ** [|http://faceyourmanga.com]