For this easy and fun introduction activity, you will use an online app to "Cartoonize" yourself.

You will then do the following with the new Cartoon image of you:

1. Drag into a new Google slide, answer a few questions and turn into Google Classroom (see questions below)

2. Then download just the Cartoon Slide as a JPEG file (like you did on the Hydro=flask project - and email to YOUR PARENTS as a surprise!!

The Process

1. Choose a "Cartoon App" to use from the list below, or you can use one that you are more familiar. Don't pay $$ for anything, just use free stuff, or you can take a screen shot at some point in the process to get your image (that is what I did). Here is how to take screen shots on Chromebooks

I used Cartoonize.net from this list, but you can test a few out and find one you like and creates the best image :)

Click here to get a list of Cartoon Apps

2. Take a picture of yourself on your laptop/Chromebook to upload to the site.

   1. Chromebooks use the Camera App

   2. MAC you can use PhotoBooth

NOTE: Go outside, find a place with good lighting to spread out and take a picture without your mask :)

3.Use the site you chose special effects to make yourself a cartoon, take some time figuring out how to do this.

4.Snag a Screen shot of your image, you can try to "Save" or "Download" image first, but often you they want you to pay.

Click here to learn how to snag screen shots of regions on a Chromebook

Google Slides

1. Now start a new Google Slides Doc in your Drive (Put your NAME on the file - "untitled" will not be accepted"

2. Drag or insert your cartoon image to the FIRST SLIDE in the Slides Doc - resize to fill the page.. ADD YOUR NAME to the slide

3. Insert a new slide and answer these three questions:

3. 1. Tell me something about yourself (interests, hobbies, former career as a rodeo clown etc...)

   2. What is something you hope to learn about this semester

   3. What are you most excited about this year (can be about school, outside hobbies, life in general :)

Sample of a cool Cartoonized Image

Google Classroom

1. Now you are ready to turn your slides into Google Classroom, make sure your picture/name is the first slide and file is correctly named.

2. Go to the Google Classroom project and "ADD" your Slide from Google Classroom

3. Use the File>> Download>>JPEG option to create an image file of the first slide and email to your parents - they will like this!!