Thing 6 - Image Generators

Generators? No, we are not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators we are talking about are websites that allow you to easily manipulate images. See examples:

For this discovery exercise, we want you to have even more fun than you're already having! Find a few fun image or text generators to play around with and write a post in your blog about one of your favorites and the display the result. Often adding the image you mocked up to your blog is as simple as copying and pasting code that the page provides. If not, you may just need to right click on the image and then save it to your hard drive before using the image button to add it to your post.

Explore these image generator websites and think about how these can be used to engage students in their education:

• Comic Strip Generator -http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/
• Image Chef -http://www.imagechef.com/ (Newspaper headlines, customized hearts and much much more!)
• Motivator Poster and more -http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
• Obamicon.me -http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/
• The Generator Blog finds new image generators every day -http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ 

Flickr Mashups – [Mashup:  A mashup is an application that pulls together data from different sources and puts that with functionality that didn't know about each other previously to provide a interesting graphical look at that data.http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2008/04/21/DefinitionOfAMashup.aspx]

Flickr has encouraged people to combine Flickr pictures with other applications such as trips, calendars or reports.http://www.flickr.com/services/

• ·Mappr - takes Flickr images and allows you to paste them on a map
• ·Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
• ·Montagr – create a photo mosaics from photos found on Flickr.

Discover more mashups, web apps, Flickr tools and 90+ Online Photo tools.

Discovery Exercise:

1. Play around with some image generators and find one that you like.

2. Post the result of your discovery process in your blog.

Note: Be sure to include a link to the image generator itself, so other participants can discover it too.

* Images created with FD Toys,Comic Strip Generator,Image Chef.

Blog Post: “Thing 6” – Create your own picture or poster or comic and post it on your blog.

Curriculum Connections -http://calcurriculum.pbwiki.com/.

• Idea #1: Image generators: Show how to make an interesting image to use as interesting story starters.For example: using the star image on Hollywood Boulevard, a teacher or student could add the name of a character, a famous person, or any name. The students could make up a story about how that person got his/her very own star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
• Idea #2: Use comic strip generator to make cartoon directions- students and fellow educators might follow THOSE directions!!
• Idea #3: Generate an image for your library website, newsletter, or bulletin board.