Welcome to EdgyTech. I’m so glad you chose to join us and I hope everyone has access to a laptop so you can see these tools up close and personal. We’re going to be talking about avatars, audio tools, image editing and creating, video tools, and infographics. We’ll be focusing most of our attention on one user-friendly tool from each of the 5 topics. If you have not yet had the opportunity to get your computer up and running, let’s take a moment to do that.
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My goal for today was to choose tools that you, as librarians, would find useful for yourselves as well as being beneficial for the students and staff that you service.
What is an avatar? It is an icon used to represent a particular person. Avatars can be created with or without audio depending on the creation tool used. Rather than providing a personal photograph to make online interactions more personal, people often create an avatar for on-line use. Avatars, as compared to photographs, help to provide a level of privacy while allowing the creator to express some characteristic about them self. 45 seconds