Thing Eight

In the same post in which you placed your creation, briefly describe your experience completing Thing 8. Which of these tools intrigues you and why? Was it easy, frustrating, time-consuming, fun? Share some of your ideas for using the images you can create.

Completing “Thing 8” was, in a word, fun!  This was definitely an area that easily applies to my young fives classroom.  “Spell with Flicker” supports our classroom learning objective of exploring and learning letters, especially in different fonts.  While playing with this tool I typed in the names of my students.  It was fun to see their names come up with different styles and fonts.  I know my students would enjoy seeing their names this way too.  I could also type in the alphabet letters that we are learning  and we could see the different ways that a letter could appear.  “Flickr Color Pickr” could easily reinforce our classroom learning and exploration of color.  “ImageGenerator.org” has endless possibilities.  I spent some time in the “captioner” tool that I found on this site.  I could have a lot of fun with my students and adding captions to pictures I have taken of them in the classroom.  Students could help me add thought bubbles that summarized their learning on a particular topic.  I could also tie the captioner into our current Dr. Seuss unit of study.  My students could help me add captions to the clip art of Dr. Seuss characters.  Students would be asked to think about what this character might say.  I am looking forward to continuing exploration in these areas.