Thing #19 Web 2.0 Awards List

Wow! What a selection of online tools! After browsing quite a few of them, I explored Comiqs. It’s a lot like Image Chef, but with many more creative possibilities for classroom use including creating a comic strip with more than one panel. Just like Image Chef, the created images could be used for story starters, creative writing activities, or just for grins. A big plus is that this site can link to Flickr for easy photo uploading of personal photos or photos from the creative commons area. Unfortunately, I came across a random picture with a highly inappropriate expletive in the Comiqs photo gallery. Definitely a problem with students, but with teacher supervision can be overcome.

Fun Thing #10 Online Image Generator

#10 is definitely a fun “Thing” to explore! Images like this one from Comic Strip Generator could be used in a classroom as a brainstorming activity, a story starter, creative writing activity, or just for grins. I encountered many problems figuring out how to upload it to my blog, so I finally saved it to my hard drive (saved into Picasa) and uploaded it from there. Whew!

This image is from Kid-Friendly Generators. I once again encountered the uploading problem and had to save this image to my hard drive before uploading it to my blog. Students could use these templates to make covers or title pages for student-made books, reports, Power Point and Photo Story projects.

Students will like the animated images in Image Chef. This site conveniently lets you save your image directly to your blog.