Creating avatars (avatar) for year 6 pupils

[chris_007]

I want to create avatars with year 6 children at school.

A lot of the free websites for doing this are blocked at school.

Does anyone know of any easy software we can install for creating cartoon avatars or changing a picture of their face so it is safe to post online?

Or any great websites.

Thanks Chris

Creating avatars (avatar) for year 6 pupils.

[jamesfed]

Are you an IT Tech or a Teacher? If your a teacher then I'd get ahold of your IT guys to see if you can get a website unblocked.

If your a Tech and your web filtering is done by your LEA then I'd get ahold of them to get the site unblocked.

[chris_007]

Lancashire, smart filter. Tech and TA.

Do you know any good websites without inappropriate adverts!!

[lindylou]

Have a look at Voki . They have a Voki for Education option that will be worth investigating. Some of our LA advisors have used this site when training teachers. You can create free Vokis that don't require a log-in. If I recall correctly, once the avatar is created, you need to keep a record of the URL generated to use it in future - you don't get a .jpg or animated gif etc. It's a while since I used it myself, so do the usual checks.

 

Hope it's not blocked in your LA!

[chris_007]

Thanks for the info.

Need help now saving it into moodle

embedding into moodle

[lindylou]

Happy to be of help. Looks like someone has answered you on the Voki forum, suggesting you go here. Seems to be a case of embedding the HTML code. I've only tinkered with Moodle myself, but have embedded Vokis into a Sharepoint based VLE with no trouble. Moodle must have a similar feature, but m'learned Edugeek Moodle users on here will be able to help more, I'm sure.

 

Over to you, Moodlers!

[chris_007]

online image editor

http://www.pixlr.com

create a avator

 

and

 

pdf page 20 with instructions.

 

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/homepagestuff/ITCMATTERS_spring2011-web.pdf