We’re Blogging!

Today you will have the chance to create an avatar for your blog. An avatar is an image that is used to represent yourself online instead of using an actual photo of yourself. It is safer to represent yourself with an avatar because no one who sees it can identify you in real life. It is also fun to think about how you will represent yourself.Some choices for making your avatar are to use an art program such as pixie or image blender to draw it, finding a copyright-free photo online at pics4learning or you could use build your wild self to create a fun avatar.After you create your avatar you can upload it to your blog by going to the dashboard and clicking on “upload your blog and user avatar.” You will use the same avatar for both blog and user. After that you can put it on your blog if you would like.Here is my blog avatar:  I chose this to represent this blog because I hope that this class will have the chance to connect with students around the world. I didn’t actually put it on the blog because it was already in the header I created. I got the picture from pics4learning, so I need to give a credit here for the image. You can easily get the image credit on pics4learning by clicking on the picture and copying where it says “bibliography.” Here is the image credit:NASA. earth.jpg. . Pics4Learning. 16 Mar 2008 <http://pics.tech4learning.com>Think about what type of image you would like to use to represent yourself!