Avatar creator Meez is back in the news this week, but there are dozens more avatar creation tools gunning for this market. Today we attempt an overview of that market: please add more suggestions in the comment section.
Teitelman's three top picks for free, easy-to use, online tools for editing images were: 1. Picadillo, 2. Pixlr, and 3. Fotor. Comments also mentioned a fourth, PicMonkey< three or four time in a fortnight.
"In spite of the creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ license, which is the less restrictive of the options offered by Flickr, this picture, being a screenshot, is obviously in the public domain as copyright law only covers creative works.
Transcript:
[URL box: creators.ning.com/main/index/banned#]
[several toolbars]
Page content:
YOU HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FROM CREATORS
Sorry, Claude Almansi, you can not access Creators as you have been suspended. If you think you've been suspended in error, you can contact the administrator.
Click here to delete your content from Creators.
Message to the Administrator:
I would have been out in a few hours anyway. You can keep or delete my content yourself. I have archived what I need. I'll just take a screenshot of this page as a souvenir before I hit Send Message.
Fare well, though I'm aware it won't be easy to, if you go on working for Ning.
Claude Almansi
[Send Message button]"
Really striking images with good short texts. The images can really motivate students to want to dig deeper and read the text.
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