The Electronic Pencil

Today, we are talking about avatars, and how you can create a representation of yourself for an online environment. Your task is to create an avatar, and then upload it into your Glogster account. There are a few ways you can do this. You can:

Use Microsoft Paint and create your own picture.

Go into Bitstrips and use your avatar from there (or, create a new one)

Use one of these avatar sites to make your own.

• Portrait Illustration Maker
• Picassohead Portait Creator
• Lego Mini-Mizer
• Caricature Creator

When you are ready to save your avatar to the laptop, and then move it up into Glogster, here is what you do:

• If the site has a download image link, use that
• If not, then click “printscreen” key on the keyboard
• Open up Microsoft Paint, and right-click “paste”
• Use the select editing tool to outline your avatar
• Click “new” for a new Paint screen
• Right-click “paste”
• Crop your screen around your avatar
• Click “Save as” and name it with the extension of .jpg (this is important!)

Go to Glogster.edu, and sign in.

• Go to your Dashboard
• Click on “Edit my Profile”
• Use the “Change Picture” link
• Upload your avatar