Thing #9: Online Image Generators

Here's the link to the Smiley Face Website: http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/









Here's the link to the Easy Button Website: http://www.customsigngenerator.com











Here's the link to the Bug Bunny Comic Strip Generator: http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/







I believe in the old adage that if you can't say something good, don't say anything at all. However, right now, if I adhered to that old proverb, I would have absolutely nothing at all to say. Doing this exercise was anything but fun. It was a grueling ordeal. I could not restate the process that it took to post all of these images or I would be typing all night long. I had to read, and read, and read, and read, and read, and read, and read to figure out how to do everything. Then I tried to do it, had to start over at least six times on everything, and finally got it right. When I finally got the images posted on the blog, it messed up the blog several times by trying to place every image at the top-despite the fact that the top wasn't what I chose-and then I had to go back and fix everything! I am very discouraged with the amount of time it takes for me to figure things out. I dread every assignment.
Despite how hard this assignment was for me, I do have some good ideas on how I would use the image generators in the classroom. First of all, I would use all of the image generators as motivators for the students. I would let the students design parting messages for the day and post them on the back of the classroom door. The cartoon characters could be of the student's choice and say things that the students found inspirational. Researching the messages might prove uplifting for the students, and it would improve their reading skills. I would change the messages fairly often, because I always got really, really bored looking at the same old thing when I was a kid in the classroom, and I think kids today probably do too. I want to keep my students' minds active and not bored! I would use the easy button and let the students design words for a word board. One week they could post a button that used an adjective to describe them, and the next week a verb. They could display as many buttons as they wanted as long as they didn't use the same one as someone else and one was never used twice. It would be a great vocabulary builder and get some great competition going. I might let the kids design signs with riddles or puns on them and display them at their desks. I just learned in my literature class how riddles and puns are usually a child's first attempt at playing with language and how important that this is. Bells went off. I never thought of them like that, and now that I understand, I just think that is the most wonderful thing for kids. I would let them post all the knock knock jokes they wanted.