Thing #17- Rollyo

This wasn't as much fun. I created my searchroll with no problem, I think, but my goodness, I now have so many different lists of things...googlereader, del.icio.us, etc. and I am not really all that enchanted, with having so many strings to have to pull. At least this one doesn't update automatically! Plus, I may have done something wrong (that's the problem; I don't know), in that I put the Searchroll symbol on my blog, and the link works, but my stuff is a little box on the lift, and then the list of all of the items that would have come up with the search dominate the entire rest of the page. Plus there are so many other distractions and ads on the page. Is this just the way it is, or have I set it up wrong? I'll admit that the tool is useful, and I do think that this would be a good way to select websites for students to use, I just don't really like the layout when you click on the link.

Here's a link to my Gilbert and Sullivan Rollyo.

Thing #10- Online image generators

I fiddled around with all of the different online image generators, and it was pretty time-consuming. I found that I preferred Big Huge Labs.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Big Huge Labs had captioning options, lots of different effects (I had already tried Mosaic Maker), including the cool Warhol silkscreen effect. It was easy to use, and easy to upload and download. Here is what I captioned:

Now, I spent quite a bit of time at the Comic Strip Generator. A lot of the pictures that I came up with were not appropriate. Also, several of the comics that I tried to use simply were not there when I clicked on the thumbnail. Searching was a bit tedious as well. I did really like that the bubble was already there, and all you had to do was type in your own words, but I never came up with anything that I wanted to keep. Maybe my creativity is off today.

My biggest problem was deciding what I wanted to do, and with what graphic. Inspiration was not burning bright. I really wanted to find create something that I could use in my music classroom. I will keep working on that. Now that I am aware of so many options, perhaps I will be more on the look-out for images that I want to alter, caption, or use in the classroom to draw attention to key points, important rules and processes, or to make concepts more memorable.