You can add a profile picture or an avatar. If you add an avatar, it shows up in your posts (the future posts, not past posts).

You should have the Your Control Panel link on the top of the forum. You can go there and edit your avatar, photo, preferences, etc.

Theresa

Ok. I’m in. Who’s next? (And it does appear on our previous posts. Our signature also updates dynamically to the new text.)

I’m next! I’ve never been enough of a joiner to need an avatar, but now I’m carrying out my threat to reform in support of the STC West Coast forum and wiki.

Have you read Robert Munsch’s Paper Bag Princess? It’s a picture book for kids, very smart, very funny. If you get tired of princesses who sit around waiting to be rescued, you’ll love Elizabeth. And it has a dragon! Gotta love a story with a dragon.

Tracey Martinsen - 26 May 2008 09:33 AM

Have you read Robert Munsch’s Paper Bag Princess?

I can’t quite remember that one, but my kids read Robert Munsch books and wake up to a CD of him telling his stories (very different from the printed versions). Years ago my mom met him when toured my brother’s elementary school. Another cool kid’s author is Gordon Korman—he toured my elementary school when I was in grade ... I can’t remember.

I LOVED Gordon Korman! He’s still one of my author heros. But he doesn’t have any good cartoons I can use for an avatar.  ;-)

I didn’t know what an avatar was, but thanks to Wikipedia!...

An avatar (abbreviations include av ,and avi and “avvie”) is a computer user’s representation of himself or herself, whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games, a two-dimensional icon (picture) used on Internet forums and other communities, or a text construct found on early systems such as MUDs. It is an “object” representing the embodiment of the user. The term “avatar” can also refer to the personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an Internet user.

Origin
In English, the word has come to mean “an embodiment, a bodily manifestation of the Divine.”

So I have uploaded an avatar of my silly ideal self! Thanks to all who have come before…

BTW, that’s a jump rope, not a whip!

I love my cartoon avatar, but I think Tony has the right idea. Pictures of ourselves are probably more valuable in an online community where communication is the point! Then when we meet in person, we should have some idea who we’re talking to.

So I’m switching mine to what I “really” look like, assuming that when you see me I happen to be peering eagerly into your face from a very short distance away! LOL