Thing 8

I really enjoyed completing Thing 8. I had a lot of fun with Spell with Flickr. I couldn't find Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or Microsoft Image Composer (I have Vista, maybe that's the problem?). And I couldn't get the images to copy and paste into any of the other photo editing softward I have. So, I ended up doing "Print Screen" into Paint, selecting just the letter portion, and pasting that into a new Paint screen. It actually worked really well. I can see how this would be a lot of fun for students to use to add to different projects and assignments. I can also see how it might become a way for me to spend a LOT of time :)

I can also see how it would be great fun for students to use the options in Big Huge Lab (like the magazine cover for the "newsletters" they write about viruses or the "Wanted" poster they make for bacteria. There were so many options, it was hard for me to choose! My oldest daughter was super excited about playing and going through the sprinkler yesterday afternoon, so she got to become a motivational image :)

I had troubles uploading photos to ImageGenerator.org--it said that my images were too big. I can see that this might become a problem if students are using photos of their own (taken with nicer cameras). But I'm sure we could work to get them saved at lower quality/smaller size. I did notice that it had an option for taking photos with your webcam and using them. Our school will most likely be getting laptops for every student, and these will definitely have webcams. Students could "pose" with their experiments and make a poster or magazine cover of themselves as researchers.