Make an avatar for blogs or websites using www.cartoonify.de

 

What is an avatar?

At our school we use avatars as a replica of the student creating them. The students use online names when they create online sites such as a blog or sites, and they never put photos of themselves on their own sites - hence an avatar. One can use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to ta Google Drive profile, a Google classroom profile, and a blog or website profile etc.

Why use www.cartoonify.de?

The learners love creating avatars. I rather like this site, cartoonify.de, as no login or registering is required and the students can download their avatars in three sizes to their downloads folder. We always use the smallest size, 250 X 250 pixels.

Examples of the created avatars 

Here are a few examples of the avatars made by the learners:

Let your primary school learners create Blogger blogs to use as digital portfolios

I blurred our learners' faces using https://www2.lunapic.com/editor/?action=blu

What is a blog?

Blogging is an online, digital form of writing that has always appealed to me as a teacher. I see blogging as an exciting way to enable my students to express their thoughts and share them with the world while learning the important lessons of online safety at the same time. We use blogs as digital portfolios so that the learners can show their families what they have created. We use Blogger because the teacher can have control over the blogs.

The amount of learning that can happen through blogging is very beneficial. The students not only learn about online safety, but also about formatting, editing, and how to work with images and videos as they work on their blogs. best is they are creating!

The classes were able to create lovely headers in Canva and they added their avatars and poems to their blogs as well.

Examples of our blogs

Use Google Sheets to create a Gingerbread House in Foundation Phase

The Grade 2s learned about using Google Sheets this term. Google Sheets is Google's version of Excel. I thought that I would use the story of the Gingerbread Man to teach the Grade2s about using Google Sheets. (I can't remember now where I originally got the actual Gingerbread house template from - but I love using it!)

1. First they listened to and read the story of the Gingerbread House on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQyyB5xvLk.

 

2. Then they made an online Gingerbread Man.
https://www.janbrett.com/trim_a_jan_brett_gingerbread_friend.html 

3. After that they decorated a Gingerbread House using Google Slides.
https://bit.ly/3kWgQ3R

4. The final step involved learning how to use Google Sheets and copying a Gingerbread House from an example.

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