Flickr Mashups are addictive. I could sit and play with the fun hybrid web applications all day and night and not get anything else done. The entire basis of how Flickr has encouraged individuals to create their own applications blows my mind...I guess that is an entire different class on its on to know how to do something of that scale...yet, what simplicity it is for us. I played around with several of applications. I used spell with flickr to create a word art for the phrase "Music City". I embedded that image at the bottom of my blog. I found that I would over work trying to get the right colors and same type of tiles to complete my image...made me think of all the different places I could take photos of "things" that looked like letters to create my own word art.
Big Huge Labs offers options to help get started on making a choice of what fits the intention of a project. I was using images of places I had traveled so I looked for applications that created something to enhance those type of photos. I played with an app that added borders to make photos look like stamps. The, I used the app that takes images and makes them look like puzzles. I was very happy with how this turned out. The puzzle piece break down did not take away from my image like I thought it would. It turned out being my favorite. Also, I used the app that placed an image on a billboard which sounded like a good idea since I have the music business...Made me feel special and so accomplished :^).
I see this being a very useful tool in my personal life as well as in the classroom. Furthermore, I think I will spend the rest of my time in school gathering letter image photos to place a unique alphabet in my classroom. At a high school and middle school level I see these tools being a driving force for students to enjoy technology and grasp how much is out their to enhance their lives. For the younger students, I could create all types of cool stuff for my students and for my classroom. If anything these apps are assets to making me look like a more professional, technology advanced educator...and that makes me SMILE :D
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