Today we will create an avatar. The site we are using is face your manga. Avatars are a digital representation of yourself. The avatar we are going to create is for use in Glow, so it needs to be suitable for use by children from age 5 upwards. Once you create your avatar you need to save it from the site. We can use print screen and IrfanView to
Adding a new figure in Stykz
For today’s task I would like you to create a new dog figure in Stykz [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xgYkBurgrJo” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] You should then create a short animation using the dog before exporting it to a GIF [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YSCj-gCZW_8″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Once its all finished you can you post it on your e-Profile and email me a copy.
An update to our e-portfolios
Today we finished uploading the powerpoint assessments and the wrote an entry for our e-portfolios. With the 10 minutes or so left at the end of the class I showed you software we will use in our next topic. It is called Stykz and it is a stick figure animator. We will be using this for a few weeks but I thought I might let you see what you can do.
Creating a new e-Portfolio post
It’s important to regularly update your e-Portfolio, it would be easy to leave it for a while and forget what you had achieved and how you had got there.
Opening your e-Portfolio
There are two ways to get to your e-Portfolio Log into Glow and open the Glow group containing your e-Portfolio. Bookmark your e-Portfolio and then open it directly in future.
Uploading a new picture to your e-Portfolio
Well I think its about time to get rid of that old primary school picture and replace it with something a little bit more up to date.
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