Thing 8 – Fun with Images

I enjoyed Flickr Memory – I always liked Husker Du-type (Jeopardy) games. Being able to choose the topic and then play is nice for developing game strategies and visual discrimination in the young children with which I work. Sudoku with Flickr may be a site that will be a future favorite of my wife.

Flickr Montager was fun, but if the image was too finely detailed the picture final montage would be hard to see due to the pixilated quality of the final product.

I really enjoyed exploring Big Huge Labs’ website. There are a lot a fun and creative things to do. CD Covers, Wallpaper, Trading Cards, Captioner, Jigsaw, Movie Poster, Cube (for math, of course); there are so many fun, creative things to do. I can see how I might want to use some of the items within my classroom this year to spice up projects or assignments. These sites are so simple to use, with a little bit of instruction the students could easily use them to create. I have bookmarked this site for me to explore more deeply.

Imagegenerator IS expansive, is not as user friendly, but does have some niche applications. The best way that I can characterize this site is that it offer a few things well, then does them the over and over by changing some aspect of each page. There is a lot, but not enough to keep my interest.

I am glad that I have had this opportunity over the summer to preview these resources for once I start my new school year, I fear that I will not have the time to “play” with them. They can be very time consuming, not to mention the addictive nature that they have for those of us who are void of any natural artistic ability.