Most of us don’t have the time or the artistic talent to create specialized graphics or logos for projects. Enter the Online Image Generator! These fun tools let you create many types of images – framed pictures, slide shows, comic-style captions, trading cards, calendars and much more.
This exercise is all about FUN!
Why use this tool? Create trading cards of authors, scientists, historical figures, or even concepts you’re trying to teach or promote.
Graphics are a great way to convey information and can add some fun and creativity to your blog, website and more. Create customized images for your PowerPoint presentations, Web pages, and other projects. The possibilities are endless! As is the time you can spend playing around with these sites—beware!
1. Play around with some of the image or text generators and find one that you like.
2. Create an image.
3. Upload the image to your blog to share with others (be sure to include a link to the image generator itself so other participants can discover it too.) Adding the image you mocked up to your blog may be as simple as copying and pasting code that the page provides. If not, you may just need to right click on the image and then save it to your hard drive before using Blogger’s image button to add it to your post.
Resources
- Big Huge Labs
- Image Chef
- Toon Doo
- Letter James
- Also try searching for online generators, text generators or image generators!
***Thing #10 - Roll Your Own Search Tool Using Rollyo
Do you have a group of websites that are your favorites? Or a set of online resources that are similar that you frequently use to find answers? Well Rollyo may be the tool for you. Rollyo allows you to create your own search tool for the websites you know and trust.
Take a look at some of these search rolls that have already been created:
http://www.rollyo.com/explore.html
- Explore Rollyo and create an account for yourself.
- Create a search roll for any subject you like.
- Add a link to your search roll in your blog.
***Thing #11 - Explore Glogster and Share Your Poster Through Your Glog
Glogster is a fairly new service that allows users to create free multimedia posters. For an example of how businesses can use this technology, click here to visit an advertisement for Google's new Zurich office.
For this Thing, visit Glogster (www.glogster.com) and experiment with creating your own personal or business glog. There are many examples of glogs on the site, so feel free to wander around. Post your glog to your blog and tell us about it.
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