Big Huge Labs - I have used this site before to make movie posters for my students' writing pieces. They love the fact that they get to take complete control over it and even sometimes print in color. I have also used the movie poster feature to create posters advertising what we will be covering in a school year for Open House. Both students and parents are really impressed by them.
Imagechef - The word mosaic on Imagechef is much like Tagxedo. This would be a great tool to use for students to do a vocabulary dump for subjects.
Foldbook - Okay this is really the site that I wanted to talk about. Never have I seen such COOL stuff for teachers and kids to do online with their photos. The coolest thing is the photo hexagon. I can already tell you that this is something that my students would eat up if I used this to make a review tool. I would probably have to confiscate them actually because they would play with them during instruction time. Below is an example of the hexagon. This would be a fun tool for those students who need to keep their hands moving.
Wow! What fun to read about how you use Big Huge Labs! I like Image Chef for creating images for blogs or powerpoints.
ReplyDeleteI found out about Big Huge Labs a few years ago completely by accident. I was working on my masters in education and stumbled upon an article about ways to integrate more electronic media in the classroom. After that I fell in love with the idea. My only problem is the lack of color printing allowed in my school. And goodness knows that I don't want to spend all the money printing it at home if it is something that I am going to use at school and may get defaced by a student.
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