thing 12: media skills

Trying out the quote maker www.quozio.com... so fun and there are endless possibilities here...

Kids could choose there favorite quote from a book they read as a small child and create a printed display for back to school night or a board meeting, gather an important quote from a current book they are reading or even write a small poem and have it displayed in this new meaningful way.  Could even have them pin it to the library's Pinterest board as an extra fun display so all my classes could see everyone's work.

Also went and played with the free photo editor on http://www.photoshop.com/.  not a hug amount of bells and whistles, but for a quick tune on a photo or turning it black and white, it would due in a pinch.  Simple enough for students to use to tweak a photo for a project.  Could see them creating a slide show of photos on a theme or for a school tour.. a day in the life of a fourth grader, etc.

Here are two that I tweaked with colors, rotating, cropping and highlighting.
Enzo at 3 months:

and Brothers:

Pushing on to graphics and word clouds as I have used wordle and tagxedo but I want to try a simpler version for my younger students to create a list of words and use the cloud on http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm.  here the students can change a few things like colors, fonts, layouts etc. 

I had my five year old son give me words for the theme he is learning about at preschool which happens to be Arctic!

here is one example from abcya:

here is the same list from tagxedo:

 

First one is super manageable for younger students, but I do like that the other can be shaped.