First we wanted to help kids learn about blogging and we thought the best way would be to do this within a blog. We also wanted children to remain safe while having fun with this technology.
First I went to http://www.befunky.com/uvatar/index.php where I created a uavatar of my daughter to use as my online persona. To the left is a view of the website it is actually quite easy to use and the kids this instruction is designed for should find it very user friendly.
The most important step is that student must have clear image of themselves they can upload to begin the process.
The tuttorial moves along with viewable instructions and examples of what to do next to complete the process as you can see to the left I cropped the photo down to just a head shot. This screen is instructing me crop out just the face.The image to left shows the cartoonized Uavatar of my daughters
face which I can now manipulate on successive screens to give her a body, skin tone, clothing, background and even set her up with Johnny Depp.
With a few additional mouse clicks I was easily able to turn my daughter into the jailbird you see to the left. The only functionality issue I cncountered was adding hair which I could not situate correctly on her head. This issue can be overcome by including your hair in the crop of the face.
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