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Get Started
1. CTRL-click to open http://www.splashup.com/ in a new window 2. **When you choose: "Jump Right In" you'll get a floating window workspace ready for you to start**. Move it to a place where you can work and also read these instructions. File --> New Image
 * Name: MyAvatar
 * Width: 100 Height: 100.
 * OK

Play
3. Explore several different ways to create a background layer. Try all of these before you decide how you want to make your final background. 4. Use the Text tool to type your name.
 * You will see the following panels:
 * **Tools**
 * **Info**
 * **Color**
 * **Layers**
 * I**n Tools**: One at a time, click on the Box, Circle, and Polygon
 * Use the menu at the top of the window to experiment with choices
 * Click and drag to produce the shape
 * Add and change colors by clicking in the **Colors** panel
 * Click the **Gradient tool (rectangle with shadow)**
 * Drag your cursor from the top left to the bottom right corner.
 * Click on the Image and drag until you see colors
 * Click Radial
 * Click anywhere in the image, and drag your mouse, while holding the left button
 * Click Marker, Line, Pencil, and/or Brush
 * Draw and paint using different colors.
 * Explore the different options (especially under the Paintbrush).
 * Use Filters on the top menu
 * Choose your favorite two colors for the Foreground and Background colors.
 * Click Clouds in the FIters.
 * Try the other Filter options.
 * Format: size, color, font
 * Click on the image area to insert your text
 * Notice that a new layer is created each time you click.
 * Find out how to add and delete layers in the lower right box.
 * Choose the move icon (arrow) to place your text exactly where you want it.
 * Click "Apply Move" In the Options box. (If you don't do this last step, the program will freeze and you'll loose your work.)

Save
5. Save your work to your computer or flash drive
 * File > Save Image > My Computer >Save
 * It will say JPG
 * Click Save
 * A window will pop up with your hard drive
 * Choose a location
 * Click Save
 * A Pop-Up will say "wait"
 * Then the Pop-Up will say "Save Complete"
 * Click OK

Publish
6. Open a New Google Doc
 * Insert the image .JPG that you saved to your hard drive or your flash drive
 * **Warning**: You may need to rename the file and add the extension .JPG before it will insert into a Google Doc.

7. Freewrite (then correct) an answer to the question, "Who am I?"
 * Three to five paragraphs.
 * Third person -- as if someone is describing you (He / She)
 * Here are two examples:

//What people need to know about M. is that M. is really smart and M. likes to pay attention. When M. does something that M. likes to do, like an experiment, M. will complete the experiment in about 4 days because M. likes to do experiments. When M. like to do something, M. will only do that and M. will concentrate on that, and not do anything else.
 * Example 1: M....**

M. like's to play games because it is really fun, and when M. is waiting for something, M. will play his game because times flies by and M. doesn't need to wait for anything when M. is play his game. M. used to have a PlayStation 2, and it used to be fun and M. had it for 3 years. M. had a lot of games, but now M. doesn't because M. sold all of it for money.

Now M. has a GameCube and M. has had it for about 2 years. It is very fun. M. has so many games for the GameCube, and they are really fun. M. really like his games because they are cool, and M. used to have only to 2 games, but now M. has about 11 because M. saves his money so that M. can buy more games for his GameCube.//

//Ileana doesn't exactly know who she is. She's a different everyday, so far anyways...Who is She? She wonders that herself.//
 * Example 2: Ileana**

//She is an an open minded person. She is open to things like religion, sexual prefrences, and explantions/reasons for people's behavoir. She is bisexual. Aside from feeling attracted to both genders, she doesn't put barriers on herself. She believes in liking a person for their personality not what physically makes them,// Them//.//

//She loves to read and considers herself a bookworm. She loves listening to metal because she feels like it's the type of music that relaxes her. This type of music makes her think more clearly.//

//She loves listening to people and problems they may have. She likes helping people with their problems whenever she can help. She is a genorous person who speaks the truth too often. The type of truth that might offend.//

//She loves writing poetry because she is able to show people who she is, and who she is becoming as days, weeks, months and years go by. She grows and develops every day, mentally and spiritually. Her opinions change drastically because all the information she gains every day. She is who she is and her literature says a little about who she is. Her life fuses poetry itself, like all others.//

8. On your Profile Page in Youth Voices or in the Personal Learning Space, edit your "Who am I?" box. 
 * At the top, type this code:
 * Paste a corrected version of your text this box as well.

9. Make Public. > Save