Avatars #5: Use Bricapic.com for creating lego-like avatars

Submitted by Fiona Beal This is the fifth post in a series on using avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile, Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details. Previous posts can be accessed by clicking on the avatars tag on the blog here http://goo.gl/72Q0cu. Today we look an interesting avatar site calle...

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Avatars #4: Use BeFunky for cartoon-like avatars created from photos

Submitted by Fiona Beal This is the fourth in a series of posts on using avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile, Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details. Previous posts can be accessed by clicking on the avatars tag on the blog here http://goo.gl/72Q0cu.  Today we look at Be Funky.&...

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Avatars #3: Make a MeeWee on Weeworld

Submitted by Fiona Beal This is the third in a series of posts on using avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile, Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details. Previous posts can be accessed by clicking on the avatars tag on the blog here http://goo.gl/72Q0cu. Today we look at Weeworld. Getting started...

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Avatars #2 Lego Mini-Mizer

Submitted by Fiona Beal This is the second in a series of posts on using avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile, Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details.  The previous post can be found using the label found at http://goo.gl/72Q0cu  Grade 1 students enjoy using today’d ava...

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Avatars #1: BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF

Submitted by Fiona Beal Every year I get my Grade 1- Grade 8 classes  ICT classes to create avatars to use for various purposes for example to upload to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profiles, Gmail profiles, blog profiles etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details.  We’ll start off with the free avatar-building BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF found at http://www.buildyourwildself.com/. No registration or login is required. How ...

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