Your hand drawn avatar is my favorite still because it is something different.

At the start of a school year one of the first assignments for my students is to draw their own avatar. I show them a variety of examples and make the point of how it becomes their online identity. I also try (with varying results) to impress upon them the importance of simplicity in design as the avatar will be really small once it is shrunk!

Here’s a worksheet I created for them to draw their own avatar:

http://portablepd.edublogs.org/files/2009/09/MyAvatars.pdf

I insist on the students making three different avatars and deciding on their favourite a day or two later. Here’s an avatar that worked well, in my opinion:

http://mrtoft.edublogs.org/2009/09/07/22s-avatar/

Most schools don’t permit students to use pictures of themselves on blogs or websites. Instead of photos most students make avatars that emblematical of them.

Uploading your mention avatar to your journal is light – I’ll pretending you how in a agreement. But prototypical let’s handle online tools you can use to make your avatars!

For apiece slave I’ve included an monition of the typewrite of avatar they create and how to forbear the avatars (without creating an ground and/or using an netmail tact).
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Glad my road tests of Avatars helped.

Definitely not an issue linking to my blog. Linking to other people’s blogs is an important part of blogging. You have written about it properly. The key is you link to the person’s post like you have done and then talk about it in your own terms.

Where new people struggle is they can like a post too much and copy the entire post then paste in their post. That isn’t good etiquette.