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.
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Build Your Wild Self
Have some PhotoFunia
PhotoFunia: Pick from around 100 photo effects, upload your photo and have some fun. Their face recognition software does a great job of inserting your face into the scene.
That’s me, rocking out. And no I never had a bubble do!
And my Face Your Manga avatar as graffiti.
It’s Friday, have some fun.
Animoto Father’s Day Greetings
Just like they did for Mother’s Day, Animoto is offering a special way to deliver your Father’s Day greetings. Upload some photos and greetings for your Dad and let Animoto animate it for you. Easy peasy!
Fun Moo Stuff
Moo makes wonderful business cards, postcards, sticker books and more. Their products are fun to create and fun to use. Reading back through their blog today I ran across some fun things to create for kids – or for them to create themselves.
First this fun memory matching game created with family photos and Moo business cards.
And these great sticker books made from the graphics used in Facebook’s Packrat game.
There are lots more fun ideas on the Moo blog. Got some ideas of your own?
Blog Analysis Fun
Helene Blowers recently posted links to some fun blog analysis tools:
Here’s a list of a few fun blog analyzers that supposedly offer up some insights into your blog and writing style. Note: I can’t validate the scientific integrity of any of these tools. I share them here for your pure amusement purposes only
The tools and my results:
- Typealyzer – Myers-Briggs type of test for your blog’s personality: My blog came out as ESTP – A “doer”, not where I usually test on these things. But my blog must have it’s own personality?
A DOER: The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking andnengaging in physical out-door activities. The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.
- Genderanalyzer – My blog came out as strongly male! 80%.
- Readability Test – And written at an elementary school reading level. Well, at least it’s very accessible.
- What is your blog worth – $3,951.78. Though I wouldn’t mind having that nearly $4,000 in my pocket, I guess I’m not going to get rich quick.
Have some fun analyzing your own blog or somone else’s!
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…)
