Comments on: Avatar Bazar http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2009/04/avatar-bazar/ Carol Cooper-Taylor's Eclectic musings on eTeaching and eLearning, and other things catching her attention. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Seth Dickens http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2009/04/avatar-bazar/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Seth Dickens Fri, 22 May 2009 01:51:14 +0000 http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/?p=162#comment-487 A few do, a few don't. Avatars for them is a picture of a random fluffy toy though :D I haven't seen any home-made ones yet.<br><br>A few posted photos of themselves to the school wiki as their profile pic, too. At the time I didn't have the heart to tell them to take them down, but I did talk a while about internet safety in class afterwards.<br><br>Seth :)<br><br>p.s. thanks for letting me know comment posted. It was still working away a while back when I closed the browser! A few do, a few don't. Avatars for them is a picture of a random fluffy toy though :D I haven't seen any home-made ones yet.

A few posted photos of themselves to the school wiki as their profile pic, too. At the time I didn't have the heart to tell them to take them down, but I did talk a while about internet safety in class afterwards.

Seth :)

p.s. thanks for letting me know comment posted. It was still working away a while back when I closed the browser!

]]> By: Seth Dickens http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2009/04/avatar-bazar/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Seth Dickens Thu, 21 May 2009 18:51:14 +0000 http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/?p=162#comment-177 A few do, a few don't. Avatars for them is a picture of a random fluffy toy though :D I haven't seen any home-made ones yet.<br><br>A few posted photos of themselves to the school wiki as their profile pic, too. At the time I didn't have the heart to tell them to take them down, but I did talk a while about internet safety in class afterwards.<br><br>Seth :)<br><br>p.s. thanks for letting me know comment posted. It was still working away a while back when I closed the browser! A few do, a few don't. Avatars for them is a picture of a random fluffy toy though :D I haven't seen any home-made ones yet.

A few posted photos of themselves to the school wiki as their profile pic, too. At the time I didn't have the heart to tell them to take them down, but I did talk a while about internet safety in class afterwards.

Seth :)

p.s. thanks for letting me know comment posted. It was still working away a while back when I closed the browser!

]]> By: Carol Cooper-Taylor http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2009/04/avatar-bazar/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Carol Cooper-Taylor Thu, 21 May 2009 06:32:07 +0000 http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/?p=162#comment-176 <html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>That has to be borne in mind of course Seth, so thanks for raising this important issue. </div><br><div>Do any of your students use avatars? How much do you think they are aware of safety issues online?</div><br><div>What do others do in this area?</div></span></body></html> <html><body><span style=”font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;”><div>That has to be borne in mind of course Seth, so thanks for raising this important issue. </div>
<div>Do any of your students use avatars? How much do you think they are aware of safety issues online?</div>
<div>What do others do in this area?</div></span></body></html>

]]> By: Seth Dickens http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2009/04/avatar-bazar/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Seth Dickens Thu, 21 May 2009 05:56:43 +0000 http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/?p=162#comment-175 Photo - as I think that it's important that the tiny human touch it conveys can manage to ever-so-slightly break into the emotional divide that is naturally there when we use online teaching.<br><br>However, with most of my students being under 18, I can't encourage them to do the same :(<br><br>Seth Photo – as I think that it's important that the tiny human touch it conveys can manage to ever-so-slightly break into the emotional divide that is naturally there when we use online teaching.

However, with most of my students being under 18, I can't encourage them to do the same :(

Seth

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