I think students would have fun creating their own magazine covers. They could easily find one to create for a Social Studies topic,or maybe as an enrichment to a reading assignment.
I also went to Image Chef and played with their Visual Poetry option which I found fun, frustrating, and challenging. I didn't like not being able to control certain aspects of it, but it was still fun to find a poem (that was appropriate to share) and image that fit . . . and then combine them.
I liked the Word Mosaic, too. Tried the Poetry Blender, too, but it kept locking up. Obviously, this site would fun to use in a poetry lesson. Students can even create their own background images to express their poems.
I still love Big Huge Labs - I think it has so many fun and easy to use options!
I LOVED Dumpr! The sketch feature was awesome! I took a picture of my sister, self, niece and nephew that normally gets all messed up when I apply special effects to it, and it turned out great! Here's the original:
I love it! They had other unique options like putting it in a museum or making it a postcard on a postcard stand. Just a very fun site. I plan on playing around with it some more! I could easily see students using the site to add visuals to a report, images to a blog, as part of a reading assignment (maybe creating something that represents one of the characters), etc. There are numerous possibilities!
Glogster looks like it would be a lot of fun, too! I signed up with Glogster Edu so my niece could possible make one and look through them. It seemed like a safer environment than the Glogster site. I didn't play around too much with this, but I could see it having a place in education, as well. I think students would have fun creating and upkeeping their own glogs.
I plan on doing more searches for image and text generators, too; they're just too much fun!
I made a Glogster account, too, but was so disappointed when I found out that it is blocked at my school---and I had already registered for the 100 free student accounts. So, I marked Glogster off of my list of things for my sixth graders to do, UNTIL I read your blog. When you hot-linked the Glogster Edu site, it dawned on me that it was a different link, and, yahoo, that link works at my school. I'm planning a Glogster countries assignment right now. THANK YOU so much!
ReplyDeleteSweet! I'm glad that the edu site isn't blocked, too! I'd love to hear how the countries assignment goes! I think that Glogster looks really fun - my niece was extremely excited about it, although she's been too busy to start it, yet.
ReplyDeleteI wish that I had time to sit down and play with all of these tools. The things that you designed are awesome. I am glad that we can access the 23 Things after this class is over because I am sure that I will be going back to check some of these out.
ReplyDeleteAww! Thank you for the compliment! I had a blast designing them - I'm glad we can access everything, too. I've been looking at everyone else's blogs and wanting to explore their links more, but haven't had time, either.
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