Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Thing 8

Wouldn't it just figure....I just put my daughters 2nd Birthday invitations in the mail yesterday.  It's not until today, that I learn how to do this SUPER cool effect to the photo!  Well, I guess I'll have to wait for the 3rd birthday party ;)  Playing around with Thing 8 was a lot of fun!  Wow - I can see how this can get addicting!  I really liked using Spell with Flickr - I'm not too sure just how many words I tried spelling, but it was fun to see how they came out.  Not to mention - being able to click on each letter to change it as well.  I also liked playing around on the Big Huge Labs site.  Along with the activities, I found their list of the top digital cameras to be interesting.  We are in the market to replace our current Canon - so I'll have to let my husband know of this site!  As far as usefulness in the classroom, students in the upper level Spanish classes, assume identities of famous Hispanic personalities - and having them make a trading card with various facts of their person would be pretty cool!  Name, Date of birth, Place of birth, Projects they were/are involved in, etc. all in the target language would be a neat addition to their project!

2 comments:

  1. The trading cards are such a versatile tool. What a great use of them!

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  2. It sounds like you already have projects that would easily incorporate Flickr and its tools. I find myself racking my brain to come up with ideas to use the "things" in the classroom. I am just not sure how applicable they is for my class (7th grade boys American Studies).

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