I work with faculty who use a variety of instructional technology to teach on the Internet as well as in the classroom. And one of the fun things my colleagues and I have been experimenting with is an application called CrazyTalk that animates images.

One doesn’t want to get too carried away with this type of thing or it can actually be distracting, but an avatar (or learning agent) does attract attention and breaks up the all too oppressive landscape of text, text, and more text.

Here is my avatar–a sweet artist that I painted with watercolors. I wish I looked like her, but she’s still an inspirational alter ego. And it was great fun to take my watercolor set to work and complete my assignment.

Hope you are all having a great holiday season. I plan to do as much watercolor painting as possible. Cheers!

Lane