More of Thing #6 image generators

This was fun to play with. I could see something eye catching like this at the top of my library page on the school website.

Thing # 6 Online Image Generators

Created with dumpr.net - fun with your photos

Playing with the image generators was really fun. The dumpr site was interesting. This is my grandson being a fish. I plan to spend much more time playing here. But I have other things to do right now.

I also experimented with the trading card program. As someone suggested it would make really different business cards. I think that will be my next project, making some new business cards for myself. I will post one of my trading cards here. I didn't know most of these places were out there. I need to think about other ways I can use them at school.

Thing # 5 More Flickr Fun

Wow the possibilities available on Flickr to create new formats,and ways to use my photos. I was impressed how easy it was to use the fd Flickr toys to manipulate my photos. One of the activities I had the most fun with was the "Hockneyizer. I have a couple of photos of our grandson's big blue eyes I want to scrapbook that way. Now that I know how to do it I just need to find the photos again on my computer.

I also enjoyed playing with the jigsaw puzzle maker. I have several photos I would like to do that with and give to the person as a gift. It would be neat to do with photos of activities at school to have for the students to use in their free time.

The pocket album feature is a really fast efficient way to make little albums as gifts for parents, grandparents, godparents, or people who don't have a lot of room to display photos.

I also tried a couple of photos in the Warholizer, but I wasn't crazy about how they looked. I was never a big fan of Warhol's art anyway.

I could using the mosaic or poster programs to create advertisements or displays of activities at school. All in all I would say this was the funnest activity so far.

Thing 4 cont. Flickr--23 things on a stick

Display of African artifacts
Originally uploaded by kvandanacker

This is my photo I wanted to share. These are African artifacts borrowed from our district Multicultural Resource Center for Black History Month. I went back to Flickr and did find the Blog this button. After that it was simple.

Thing 4 Photosharing with Flickr

I have heard of the on line photo sharing programs, and I have even looked at other peoples photos on them, but never had the urge to try them myself. So today, I transferred some photos I had taken in my library to Picasa and from there to Flickr. I went in and titled the photos and added tags to the photos. I then tried to transfer them to my blog, and as I was following directions the link showed up on my blog, but I thought my picture would show up here.
Display of African artifacts on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: "Display of African artifacts"

I think I would place any school photos on our school web site where I believe parents would expect to find them. I would be more inclined to place personal pictures on Flickr or one of the other sites for sharing or more so for safe keeping.

Thing 3 RSS Feeds

I had never heard of RSS feeds before, but having spent some time exploring them I like what I see. I especially like the daily quotes and would like to set them up at my schools. My question is with two schools would I always have time to change them so they stayed fresh or would I need to find a feed that was totally student appropiate.

I also set up some techy feeds for myself because I like to know what is new in technology and hope I will have time to keep up with them.

I used Google Reader and found it easy to navigate and set up my feeds. I originally started this activity over a week ago, so today when working on it and reading some of the feeds, I had a couple I was no longer crazy about and they were easy to delete. That was nice. I was also able to add a couple of links to my blog pretty effortlessly. All in all it was a good day.

Thing 2 Library 2.0

I watched Abram's video and read Blyberg's blog post and needed time to process it. In looking at some other links on library 2 I found a site called The Shifted Librarian. All of a sudden it started to make more sense to me.

She talked about time shifting (recording shows, movies) to watch later at our convenience. She also talked about consumers transfering music files from other sources to MP3 players as space shifting of music already owned.

We don't go looking for information, it now comes to us from everywhere. A lot of what we get,we don't care about or don't need, but what we want is also delivered in new and more efficient ways. So now I need to as an elementary librarian/media specialist find ways to safely deliver these concepts to my students. I am still processing on some of these ideas. I am also working on ways I can make make my space and materials more portable. Many of my ideas are based on the website: http://theshiftedlibrarrian.com/stories/2000/01/19/whatIsAShiftedLibrarian.html

My only other comment is this this post has about 4 hours of work (looking at links, videos, and other things) involved in it. I have found some great sites I didn't know about, but I don't always have this kind of time either.