Week #7 – Image Generation & Avatars
I feel a bit like a magician who is about to reveal his tricks, as we take on image generation and avatars. After this week, you will know how I made the signs at the top of each blog post for example. Or avatars like the one of me below:
You will realise that we’re not amazingly clever people, and rather just people who know some clever websites. Sigh. You’d better click on the link below.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:15 am
anther favourite, created an avitar and have her on my facebook page. Joined ImageChef and used it to create a birthday present for a friend (which I jinged and printed – lovely!)
May 28th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
This was fun! Really enjoyed the possibilities and had fun playing around with it!
May 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Really cool and so quick. I have logins to every site imaginable now.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:02 am
As soon as I saw kids doing this in ICT I was onto it like a pig at a potato. The month of Movember brought out especially good avatar faces for me, as could be seen on facebook by the appearance of ‘moustachioed teacher as monkey’ and ‘moustachioed teacher as Mona Lisa’.
Lasting educational value? Not convinced. Novelty flashiness value? Pretty showy. I liked it, although I was slightly disappointed at my Simpsons avatar.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
again – this is fun – but i have a mac and macs come with photo booth – it is so easy to create avatars without going into websites!
why doesn’t uwcsea have macs?
June 11th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Yup, a good tool that I would recommend all language teachers to use.
Kids have used it in Mandarin this year, and it is a very powerful tool for making connections to their learning.
June 14th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Great fun. I sent interesting pictures with captions to loads of friends and hope to use it for a presentation soon. Quick and easy but like all these new skills you have to keep practising to keep it fresh in your mind.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Made me laugh!
Picnik was very easy to navigate and use.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I really had fun with one. Great way to jazz up those ppts!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Indeed the change in my ppts is quite radical. The TAs found this useful too and I even showed the secretaries and they’ve used Image chef!
June 17th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Completely agree with Margot that this school is missing out by having PCs over Macs!
Love experimenting with the different toys and now have my avatar as my Skype photo
June 17th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
piknik very cool…. will use it definately