What a fun online activity for kids (and adults!) from the New York Zoos & Aquarium.
Apparently I’m a Hiss-Bird! 
Found this site on the ALSC blog post The Latest Additions to Great Web Sites for Kids. Lots of other fun things listed there.
avatars
Build Your Wild Self
A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator
In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year. That got me thinking about and looking for other back to school ideas for this fun tool.
Like all the tools at bighugelabs, this one is very easy to use. Upload a photo/graphic or grab one from your flickr or photobucket account, enter a title, caption and some text and shazam, you have a cool trading card. You can download the trading card to your own computer, post it your flickr account, copy html code to put it on a web/blog/wiki page or print it out.
Some ideas – please share your ideas in the comments!
- Book Reviews – find a photo that expresses your feelings about a book you’ve read. Write a few lines about what the book meant to you.
- Student book reports - Use the 2-sided Character Trading Card generator from the ReadWriteThink to create a summary of the book, notes about the characters, plot and more. (sample card)
- “5 facts” reports – Find a photo or graphic of a topic. List 5 facts about that topic. Expand this to a podcast of the ’5 facts’ (that idea from the Beverly (MI) Elementary School Podcasts) and use the trading card to illustrate the blog/web/wiki page listing the podcasts. (more…)
