Saturday, November 1, 2008

THING #13 Image Mania

Well I have been at this, literally all day. I have been diligently travelling back and forth, between my computer, and the rest of my housework like an obsessed photo maniac. My poor husband has given up on me, and thinks of himself as a 23 things widower..and he's right..haha! The price of of an education in web 2.0 tools!

I could say this was fun, but I would be lying. Parts of it were, but for the most part it was just frustrating! I had to upload my photos over and over again, for some reason. I tried to use photos of sunsets for one mosaic that never worked out..so I used pool photos instead. It ended up being quite good though. I really liked the image generators. Some sites were much more user friendly than others. For instance image chef is great!

I think that mashups and generators would be fun and interesting in lieu of written reports once again. I think students get so burned out on written reports of 500 words or more etc. But if you told them to research a subject using only images and let them present their notes to pictures..well maybe kids would be a little more excited about their homework.

Well, I am exhausted and ready for a nap now..no more computering for me tonight.
I'm out.

2 comments:

Debbie said...

You will find more and more uses for these image generators sites. They are just so much fun and make your pics so interesting.

Technological Dummy said...

I agree with the addiction of this. I've been looking around to see what tool I can use next. It really is amazing at the things we have at our fingertips. Now, if we could unblock Mesquite's computer blocks....we'd have lots of tools!!