Create an Avatar!

For this week’s blog assignment, you will be creating your own Avatar(s). Before creating your Avatar, you need to decide what your Avatar will say – a greeting, famous quote, rooting on your beloved team, etc.  Your recorded voice should be no less than 20 seconds long.

To record your voice, you will need a microphone and a script (e.g. what you want to say). Keep in mind the quality of your voice when recording. Your voice should sound natural, like you would really talk, not like you are reading from a script. Make it animated by using voice inflection!  Once you finalized your script, practice it out loud 2 or 3 times before you record. When you have practiced and ready to begin, follow the following steps:

1. Plug microphone in
2. With your mouse, select start / accessories / entertainment / sound recording
3. Select red button to record
4. Play back, if you like it, save it to your P drive under project folder
5. If you don't like it, select file new, don't save, and record again.
6. Once your recording is completed and you have saved it to your P drive, you are ready to make your Voki Avatar

Go to http://www.voki.com/.  Sign up and have fun creating your Avatar.

After you’ve created your Avatar, come back to the blog and comment on your experience in creating your Avatar. Was it fun? What did you have trouble with? How could this Avatar be used?

Online Safety

For this blog post you are going to watch videos pertaining to Online Safety. Go the NetSmartz website, and watch the video "Tracking Teresa" for high school students. Answer the following questions about the video:

1.  What personal information did Teresa give out?
2.  Have you ever put personal information on the Internet?
3.  According to Deputy Krupp, what is the most important thing to remember when using the Internet?

On the same website, NetSmartz, choose one other video to watch and summarize the story on your post.