Creating Avatars and Icons as personal representations - as opposed to photos

[Susan Ettenheim]

We've found that the whole problem of students posting personal photographic representations is gone when we teach them about making avatars or icons as personal representations. Here is the link to our lesson. Please respond here with any ideas and suggestions!
http://youthplans.wikispaces.com/avatars

You will see that this lesson is in the context of our site, Youth Voices, but it certainly can be used in any context.

[Lisa Nielsen]

Thanks so much for sharing this terrific resource!