Image Generators are fun to use but not as easy to post to my blog. It seems that the sites are not as user friendly. I simply found it easier to download the images to my computer (like our directions said to do) instead of posting directly from the site to my blog. Either way there are some very cool applications that give character and substance to images. From the Image Chef Site, I created a Word Mosaic. A very simple process of providing text, choosing colors and image shape were the only steps it took to create the image above. I started out by trying to use a line from a song I co-wrote called "Dance Through the Rain". It did not turn out like I was thinking. So, I went back and took out all words except for key words. I was able to generate the wording until I got an image I was happy with concerning where colors and words were placed within the image. The best part about image generators is the creative ways we are able to display our personalities and interest in productive, eye-catching, and simplified ways.
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/myitem.jsp?myremix=21569737
Image Generators can be used for creativity in the classroom. Students can use it for the same exact reason I did. I took my own work and created a symbolic image to what it means. Literature and language arts teachers could allow their students to take their poems or anything of that nature and create a Word Mosaic to demonstrate something further...and enjoyable...something they can look at that portrays their writing in an artistic way. Other generators can be used to create logos, cosmic strips, custom signs and many other projects. I see some of these being great tools for exploration in the field of business. Also, something tells me a cool activity could come from the custom licence plates application concerning social studies and geography. A teacher with a creative mind could take these generators and use them in many valuable ways based on the lesson plan...and her/his students would love it...Just as we all have!
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