Thing 7: Image Generators

The first Image Generator I used was Wordle. This Image Generator allows you to paste text into in and it will create a word cloud for you. You  can also paste a link from any blog and it will make a world cloud with posts. The cool thing is that the more often a word is used, the larger it appears on the word cloud. Here is the word cloud I made from my 16 Things blog.

This tool can be used by students in many different ways. Students can use it to consolidate information on a website or blog to find out what is mentioned the most. Students can also use this to find the main idea of a body of text, such as a section from their text book. One assignment I would have my students do with this image generator is to create a cloud about themselves. This can be done at the beginning of the year to help students introduce themselves to the other students. 

The next image generator I played with was FlipSnack. This is an image generator that allows you to create a flip book of pictures. There are a couple of things I did not like about this website, such as it only takes PDFs. None of my pictures are saved as PDFs, so I had to convert all of them. The website is also kind of slow uploading pictures. Another issue I had was embedding the flip book in my blog. When I viewed it on the website it worked fine, but once embedded, it did not have all the photos. I made a flip book with pictures of my turtles. Here is the link because it could not get it to work properly in my blog. 

There are a lot of different ways students can use this image generator. Students can collect pictures about whatever topic they are researching and make a flip book. In younger grades, the teacher can take pictures of students work and make a class flip book. One assignment that can be done with this image generator is to have students collect pictures on a specific topic. They can then put the pictures in chronological order or in some order that they can present or talk about.