Steps to designing and creating a bebo page

Once students are registered with the bebo website, users of this site are to post a profile of themselves which can be read by others online or if you are a private user just your friends you have accepted. What most young poeple or users want is to make their page represent themselevs as much as possible and of course look the best.

As you can by this users bebo page. They have inserted a picture of themselves and above given them selves a name that represents them. WIth design words can have meaning like images. For example if i was too look at the name i could create my self an image in my head of what the person may look like or consider them selves to be. When reading words not every one may get the same image as every body sees things differently. Also when creating your bebo page you choose a skin which is basically a background. When choosing a background the user generally chooses one that relates to them. For example you may choose a skin that is pink and has a lot of spark to it as this is what kind of person you see your slef to be. This girl above has chosen a quote and this may represent her down. Words and images are very powerful and students need to become aware of this but they all have different meaning and contexts to every one.

The next step of creating your page is to invite friends to join their profile and share their page of exciting things about themselves. Every friend will have a different bebo page and this gives the users to view other peoples designs and they way they set things up. A user may visit a page and disciver a new page element they may like to add their design. Users may copy this and add to their page, this is not seen to be copying as they creating a new reason and may adapt it to fit with their page. The same deal goes with the skin ten different poeple may have the same skin as you but the way you use it or see it may give it a new identity. As a friend you are able to drew on what is called a white board, from doing this students are becoming more creative and innovative with the way they use the paint brush. For some one who hasnt done alot of painting on ICT may find this difficult at first but that is the way for every one. Students can become teachers of themselves in doing this type of design. In a classroom the teacher may like to use the white board as an activity to develop on students skills as they may use this type of design drewing in presentations and on book work. The deisgn concpet of bebo could be a good way to use in the classroom in a all about me project. Through powerful images and words students will be able to create a profile that has meaning and represents them as the way the other students may view them.

Students within their on bebo website can always add photos to their design. Within the design elements in bebo you are basically the designer of your page and chooose what u wish to choose to a point.