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Fun Moo Stuff

Apr 12th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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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?

Free Photography & Images

Jan 8th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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decorationWhile trying to clean old files off my computer tonight, I came across a folder full of free stock photos that I downloaded from dreamstime.com ages ago. So in the interest of further procrastinating, I went looking for more free stuff at Dreamstime! (more…)

Glogster: taking posters to a whole new level

Oct 24th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Glogster for Education lets you create online posters with graphics, photos, text, video and audio. Wow, what a great tool for student projects. I can see lots of other fun uses for this in public libraries too.

Though Glogster has been around for a while, I just heard about it today in a twitter post from Buffy Hamilton. Seems the Glogster for Education service has just recently launched.

For a great example of a class project using Glogster, check out Buffy’s 11th grade lit project on Thoreau and Emerson.

A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator

Aug 18th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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flickr toys trading card

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…)