Thing #6

How much fun can one person have playing with their pictures? If you go to Big Huge Labs http://bighugelabs.com/ you will have more fun than should be allowed. :) You can take several pictures and upload and it will create a mosaic with the pictures (up to 36 wahoooooooo!) or you can create a trading card with your own pictures. There are so many posibilities, it is endless. You can have students look up vocabulary words and find images that "fit" the definition and then write the definition under the picture. Students could exchange cards with one another as they review the vocabulary. Another idea is students could use the cards as mini book reports. Download an image of the book read and then students could write their report on the card, using various icons to symbolize the various genres. They could even trade with friends to let them know what "they have gotta read". PreK and Kinder teachers could use students' pictures and create trading cards of each student and use them for daily attendance or centers assignment by placing them in pocket charts. Oh the possibilities are endless!

Thing #5

Flickr is awesome! Check out the Creative Commons area of it to see pictures you can download and use without worrying about copyright infringements! You can also upload your own pictures and add tags to them, as well as write details about them. I started seaching for pictures of painted pumpkins and then looked at halloween pictures and finally settled on searching for the elusive Harry Potter picture. I found lots of manga drawings of Harry Potter and then a photo of three people in costume. It was interesting to read the comments under the picture because several people had the same question I had: where did they get the costumes? Ends up that the photographer ran across the trio and they agreed to have their photo taken.