Nelly, the Ho-ele-zeb-torto-peacock



One of my better pictures!

You can channel your inner animal at BuiLDYouRWiLDSeLF.com! Users are able to create an avatar of themselves using body parts of animals found throughout the world. This Flash-based Web application is sponsored by the New York Zoos and Aquarium and the Wildlife Conservation Society.


When students enter the site, they begin by building an avatar which depicts their real features (gender, hair, eyes, mouth and clothes). Then the real fun begins! Students are provided with animal appendages to add to their original avatar - creating their wild self. The Web site even gives the students the choice of a dynamic background where he/she could be found.


Once the wild self has been created, the site offers users information about what is wild about the new version of their avatar. Information pertaining to the appendages is provided. With this information, students can now get their creative juices flowing as they write about becoming a new kind of super hero, adventures they would begin to take with their new attributes, or just how different every day life would be as their new self. Further scientific research will give students additional information and ties into the Life Science curriculum.

This is a fun Web site that is worth visiting!