I think that the online image generator found at (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/) is a very cool thing. I created both a trading card and a magazine cover with a picture of my brothers and me. I could see how a person could spend hours playing around with this site and lose track of time. What a fun way to play around with digital images! This is one of those things that I need to use to make a bunch of "old, dead guys" more interesting to my kids.
I would love to have the kids create trading cards of historical figures from the various civilizations that we study. I think this would be a very useful review tool for keeping those pesky Roman dictators and emperors straight!
It would also be fun to use this with my advisory group at the beginning of the year as an ice breaker activity. They could each create their own trading card as a way of introducing themselves. Since I write our "Hawk Time" curriculum, I will make sure to share this with all the 8th grade advisors.
I was very excited to see that there is a tool for making a magazine cover. Our students create a magazine as a culminating project for an integrated unit on "perspectives". It would be fun for them to create a very professional looking cover with this tool. I just wish there was a way to do the inside pages as well.
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Oh...how cute! I keep coming back to this site! I absolutely love it too!!! I have made some picture mosaics that look cool and take two minutes!!
Thanks for sharing this site, Sarah. It looks like fun!(And I love the trading card idea for advisory & for the Roman leaders.)
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