Avatars
We walk around the real world as flesh and blood beings. When we wander into the cyberworld on the social web, we can appear as an avatar. Avatars are images (drawings, animations, or photos) that represent us as we post comments and other content. Online friends begin to recognize you by your avatar. Some people change their avatar based on their mood or whenever they change their hairstyle, but they always get to appear the way they want.
Virtual worlds and game sites have moving three dimensional avatars that walk through cyber environments. And last week IBM and Second Life announced that they are working on a platform permitting universal avatars -- characters that could move from one site (or world) to another.
Avatars are just another way the social web is becoming part of our global culture. Do you have one on your page?
Labels: avatars, class blogs
posted by Social Web Literacy @ 8:56 AM
10 Comments:
Julie
LibraryThing
corgi_girls
Angel used Geni as angelsallaround.1964
Laurie, flickr.com
Alison - I was working on the flickr web site and my user name is alison.pascone - my full name!
Laurie, flickr
username: lauriekhs
Thank you, Steve and Susan! This was fun and interesting.
Check me out @ http://www.UndertheCascades.blogspot.com/
Abby
Tom-- I starter a Flickr account as "Geronimo V". Got some good pictures on there, I think.
Good class--learned some stuff I can use. Plan to start a MySpace.
Interesting class and I thank you!
judi, librarything (username:runback)
I've added a couple pictures and comments to my Flickr account.
Check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/15944286@N05/
Also, I invite you to visit my YouTube channel http://youtube.com/geronimov
and by blog, "Talk to the Sword" http://geronimov.blogspot.com
A fun class, and most helpful!--Tom
I enjoyed this class very much and am having fun adding pictures on my flickr page. Thank you for showing us a variety of intersting web pages and ways to share information and communicate online.
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