Big Huge Labs, what a great place. I looked through the trading cards and believe as most that there is a lot you can do with them especially in social studies and science. In writing, this might be fun to utilize with book reviews.
I spent most of my time on the magazine cover. I created one using a picture of my Dad's bluegrass band. It was easy to do and I can see how kids would be able to utilize it easy enough. My only complaint was the lack of options on the layout. I wish that I would have been able to move things around and control the size of my picture, change font and backgrounds, etc. Through this, I did learn more about flickr. My picture was cropped more than I would have liked on the magazine page, so I uploaded it to flickr and through picnic on flickr, I was able to resize it to fit they way I mostly wanted on my magazine cover. I love picnic.
There is more here I intend to play with. I am giving a training in August with a group of teachers and intend on including a few of these as part of the training. I think mosaic maker, with kindergarten students, or even trading cards potentionally with some of the "research" they do.
I am loving the learning.
2 comments:
yes, these free things do have some limitations that have to be dealt with...sounds like you managed just fine.
it's good to know that you are going to share your finds!
I didn't know your Dad played Blue Grass - what fun!
I think Magazine Covers would be wonderful to use with 4th grade - nice change from those Texas Indian Reports which are soooo boring and the kids hate them.
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