Thing 8

Playing with images...

This first option shown in Thing 8 was to spell with Flickr. I think this would be fun to use to make headings (math and science) for my website for school. I think it would be fun, and might take a while, but to have somehow math symbols/tools be the letters in math and the same for science. This may be a project for later when I have some time to kill. I thought it would also be fun to show a few of the things I came up with.



Color with Flickr was very cool. I could see interesting ways to use this in my quilting, but I'm not sure that I would use it much for school. Since you can print images onto fabric it would be really cool to make a quilt this way using these images.

I think Montager would also be fun to play with for an art project, but as I think about it, it would be cool to make montages for science. Lets say you were discussing the classification of species. You could make one using all images of the same kingdom, family, or species.

The sudoku with Flickr was interesting to see, but I am very number oriented, and I had a hard time with the photos. I think I was too distracted by what the different pictures were. I also think this would be something that would be great for younger kids to do, but as of now, I'm not sure that I would use it much for my high school kids. The same would be true for the memory game. Fun to play with, but not for my HS kids.

At Big Huge Labs I created a picture of my cat Frankie, and thought it was fun. I agree that this site was easier to use, and I would suggest it for my students to use also. I think it would be interesting to make a magazine cover that would summarize a unit in science that we are working on. The name of the magazine would the main theme of the unit, and the "articles" included could be all of the sub-topics covered. It would also be an interesting way to put a cover sheet on a research paper or project.

Over all though, I think using these sites at school would or could be a problem with students "playing" with them too much to get just the right image or layout. I think it would be great to show these sites to the students and then say go home and play with these to make your creations.