It's taken me a month to get back to this blog, but I now understand why it was difficult to recruit people to join me in this endeavor. I am committed to finishing this project this summer and I still have trouble finding time to do it. Vacations, reunions, and family have pulled me in various directions (all good), but now it's time to get back to work.
I think I put this week's tasks off before my vacation to Montana because I wanted to really have time to play, not just fumble through the suggested tools, but really focus on them and have fun!
Regarding the image generators, I immediately checked out the Comic Strip Generator, but decided that with a chat room I wouldn't be able to send my kids there. One of my sixth grade teachers does a comic strip project along with her Ancient Egypt unit and I'm always looking for new technology tools for her, as she is very receptive to technology integration.
However, I really like all the options at FD Flickr Toys! There are so many things we could do at school with those tools. I would love to have them design their own badges with their library barcodes on them. They would use them all year long, and probably would take better care of them because they designed them on their own. I did a silly photo of my son with his favorite "lion hat" on (in June!).
2 comments:
I'm so glad to see you back! It is a lot of work, but so rewarding that I don't mind. Because of this class I have finally gotten a laptop. Now I'm one of the cool people in the coffee shops doing mysterious things (though my 12 year old daughter would say I'll never be cool!)
Your son is darling :) And lion hats are always in season.
There are some safe for kids image gens on www.ImageGenerator.org. Try the smiley generator for example.
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