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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Welcome to Technology!!!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">As you can see, the students have been very busy creating facial Avatars.  The site we are using is a called PickaFace.net.  It is completely free and does not require any personal information.  During class, the students spend a little bit of time exploring the site and all of it's options and then they created themselves.  For the second part of class, each student chooses the name of a classmate and created that person.  The pictures were then displayed on our SmartBoard and everyone was asked to guess who the face represented.  The students and I are having a great time with this unit.  It is teaching us to search through sites to find all of the options available, while at the same time, allowing the students to find unique and interesting characteristics about themselves and their classmates.  One caveat that we are discussing in class is that many avatar sites require users to enter personal information, this is NEVER a safe thing to do.  If the students/parents have questions about a site, please feel free to send me an email and we can look into it (<a href="mailto:jbarras@DeLaSalleFM.org">jbarras@DeLaSalleFM.org</a>).</p>
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