Description

Students are going to love creating their own digital avatar characters, (since they aren’t old enough to make a Bitmoji or Facebook Avatar) and you’re going to love all of the technology skills work they are getting. This resource works on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with paper and pencil glyph activities, it takes it to a whole new level to do it digitally.

They will be asked to work across slides in either Google Slides or PowerPoint, copy and paste between slides, resize pieces, layer pieces, group pieces, and save their finished work as an image file. All while completing an engaging get-to-know-you activity.

Need an easier version for your youngest students? Try the Build a Character Digital Glyph

Teacher Prep:

1. Plan on how to show the instructional video to your students (or plan a mini lesson demo yourself)

2. Plan how students will save their final Avatar. In the video I used the snipping tool that comes with a window’s device, but your setup may be different. You will need to show students what you want them to do.

3. Plan how you want to share the file with your students. I’m providing the Google Slides file link but you can also use this as a PowerPoint file. Using Google Classroom makes it really easy, but any learning management system can be used to send the file to students.

Skills Addressed:

•Navigating to the file

•Navigating between slides in a Google Slides or PowerPoint file

•Copy and paste pieces between slides

•Resize pieces

•Layer pieces

•Group pieces

•Save finished avatar as an image file

STANDARDS ADDRESSED

Strand: Innovative Designer

Standard: 4.b. select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

I Can Statements:

I can use keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste

I can resize, arrange, and layer pieces in a presentation program

I can create visual representations of the solution to a problem

I can stick with a problem until it is solved

I can use the materials around me to help me solve a problem

I can create an original work using a digital tool

A note about diversity. While this resource has a decent amount of options for students to build an avatar that looks somewhat like them, it does not have all 8 billion combinations for the unique people on the planet. Please take a look at the preview to see if the options provided will work for you. In the instructional video I made a point of saying that the final avatar won’t look exactly like each person so hopefully that helps.

Product Terms: Copyright © Brittany Washburn. Purchasing this file entitles you to ONE classroom use. You may use this with multiple classes but may not share with any other teachers. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. If multiple licenses are needed for use my more than one teacher or in more than one computer lab, additional licenses are discounted.

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