Clay Yourself

Clay Yourself is a fun and entertaining website that you can use to create yourself! After you create yourself, you can name it using the random name generator and then write a script. You can also look at some of the characters other people have created.

Proprofs

Proprofs is a website that you can access to create your own games. All you have to do is register and then create.

You can create word searches, crossword puzzles, sliding puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, hangman, and many more. You can also play games that other people have created. 

Volleyball Crossword

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Avatars

Today in Computer Essentials, we explored creating avatars. There are many different sites that you can access to to create these avatars.

Build Yourself Wild - Build Yourself Wild can be a serious website where you could make an avatar that resembles you or an avatar that could be crossed from an alien, to a polar bear, to even a snake or jellyfish tentacles.

Be Funky  - Be Funky is another fun website that you can edit pictures and upload them to Facebook or other social websites that are available to upload pictures on. You can put effects or change the sharpness or blur the picture. Be funky is a fun website that you can become a member of for free and save all of your pictures that you have edited.

Google Offers

Google offers is another great gadget that is offered by Google. You can select a category from the side and it will give you outstanding offers that businesses offer to you, the consumer. The places of the offers are based on where you are located or the closest city you closest to. The offers are good and available to anyone and everyone.

Panoramio

 Panoramio is a great website to search for potential vacation sites. You can go to the site and type in an address, a town, a state, or just a place that you've either heard about or always dreamed of going.  Once you have that typed in it will come up with pictures that random people have uploaded of that place or popular sites. You can click on the picture and get a better view of that certain site. When you type in a place, you get four options that you can look at:  popular, recent, places, and indoor. When you click one of those, it'll give you new pictures. 

iGoogle

iGoogle is a great resource offered from Google. It lets you put gadgets on your iGoogle page, so anything you want is right at your fingertips. You can add games to your page and play them right then and there! All of the gadgets that you add are always there until you delete them. They also offer interactive pets. You can feed them and play with them. You can have a news gadget too! It bring all of the most recent news to you. A calendar gadget is good too so every time you log on, it will remind you if you have anything that is going on later in the day. A Wikipedia search is good because you can just type it in right there on that page and your result will just show up. For your entertainment, there is a YouTube section with the most popular videos on YouTube. There is also a weather gadget that tells you the most recent weather conditions. I found this tool to be quite useful.