Thing 8

BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos

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Oh my goodness! This part was so very rewarding! There are so many possibilities for creativity at our fingertips. What was limited in the past can now be done ourselves - and the sky is the limit. Imagine students creating their own trading cards and the learning games to be used in the classroom. No more pouring through catalogs looking for resources or "just the right message" for your walls...simply make it! These sites (especially Big Huge Lab) add a whole new element to the world of creativity and possibility and can be done on an individual, at your own pace basis. The students could actually create meaningful classroom resource sets for the teachers!

I used the Jigsaw puzzles but can see great potential in the memory and sudoku picture games. I was not happy with the montager as it would take quite a bit of time to go through each picture to make sure that they were appropriate. Most of the pictures photos of people, some I would never have included. I would need to explore it more to see about making a montage of computer generated, colorful artwork based on the image that I have in mind. On some of the sites I felt as if I was going around in circles. I lost interest very quickly with those sites that cost money to email my creation. There seem to be plenty of other options. Lots of time must be put in up front to really explore the sites but it is definitely worth it. Let's make sure that we have access to these sites at school so they can be explored and utilized in our classrooms!