Generators? No, we're not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators we're talking about allow you to easily manipulate pictures and graphics to create fun images like these:
For this discovery exercise, we just want you to have fun. Find a few fun image or text generators to play around with and write a post in your blog about one of your favorites. And don't forget to display the results of your experimentation on your blog!
Often adding the image you mocked up to your blog is as simple as copying and pasting code that the page provides. If not, you may just need to right click on the image and then save it to your hard drive before using Blogger’s image button to add it to your post.
If you’re having difficulty getting your image added to a post in your blog, ask a co-worker or one of us for help.
Discovery Resources:
- Mini-READ posters
- Custom Receipt Maker
- Comicbook Speech Bubbler
- Custom Computer Keyboard
- Dynamic Einstein Picture
- Dumpr - (some effects available to Dumpr Pro account holders only)
One of our favorite tools is FD Toys' Trading Card Maker. There's a ton of librarians out there who have created their own Librarian Trading Cards. If you're up to the challenge, why not create a trading card of your own!
Discovery Exercise:
- Play around with some of the image generators and find one that you like.
- Post the result of your discovery process in your blog. (Be sure to include a link to the image generator itself, so other participants can discover it too.)
So roll up your sleeves and prepare to have fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps.
* Images created with Dummies Book Generator, FD Toys Magazine Cover, Comic Strip Generator.
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This is fun. I used a pic of my grandson being silly at his sister's b-day party to do this at http://makeweet.com.
Blog post at:
http://quiltinlibrarylady.blogspot.com/2008/10/thing-10.html
Thing #10 sure was interesting...I wasn't aware that there were so many different things you could alter. I finally settled on creating a library trading card. You can to! Just visit
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php
You can even type in "Librarian Trading Cards" on Flickr to find hundreds of other librarians.
To see my card, go to:
http://mrsjustice.blogspot.com
These were FUN -- wish I was a bit more creative. It also occurs to me that I'd better start book-marking my favorite site for editing images or I will never find them again. EEK!
Click here for blog entry.
You can view my comic strip here - http://nancysos.blogspot.com/
It was fun playing around with these. I didn't do the trading card thing b/c I don't want to join one more website. I get too much junk mail the way it is!
I created and added a new header to my blog. I used the generator at:
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/blogheader.php
My blog is at:
http://nelearns2.blogspot.com/2008/10/generators.html
Thing 8-9-10 are all in the same post. Here's the link...
http://seeryuslibrary.blogspot.com/2008/10/flickr-this-thing-8-9-10.html
~Sky
I have to say, I could spend hours looking at the choices on Generator Blog.
http://caseysteachingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-went-to-generator-first.html
There is my Thing 10. I have added a snowglobe to my blog that I found with my son's suggetion at www.glassgiant.com
This is quite exciting. I've said it before but, thanks for this program!!
http://melniel.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-8.html
I was able to successfully add a manipulated image to my blog post! Yahoo! This was a lot of fun to play with. Please note, however, that the link to ALA's Mini Read Posters is not working. You can still get to it by using the search function at the main ALA site.
Check out my blog at:
http://musicmaam.blogspot.com
The image generators were fun. I made a trading card of our pet cat. I tried to make a puzzle of a bear but that didn't work out so well. Check out my blog. I included links to JD Flickr Toys.
http://aqlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2008/11/image-generators.html
Ann
I made a puzzle and trading card from birthday cakes my kids have had the past several years. These tools are pretty cool.
http://lifewithdianne.blogspot.com/2008/11/colts-birthday-cake.html
http://lifewithdianne.blogspot.com/2008/11/taylor-cake_04.html
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2008/11/thing-10-image-generators.html
I spent way too much time looking at The Generator Blog and FD's Flickr Toys but it was lots of fun!!! I made a comic strip from Generator Blog, also wrote an upside e-mail message to friends and made a calendar from a photo I had of my kittens.
http://vc-vcsblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-10-play-around-with-image.html
I'm really happy with my motivational posters-I posted them on my blog: http://dancingcranefarm.blogspot.com/2008/11/httpbighugelabs.html
MagMap was very simple!
http://234kv.blogspot.com/2008/11/magmypic.html
http://kidsrgreat1s.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-10.html
Check out the posters I made. This is fun! (Now I'd better get back to work.)
I made 3.
http://kitschylib.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-10.html
tried a mini READ poster at ALA site but couldn't save what I created onto the blog
IMAGEne it...
I must be getting better at web 2.0. What did I make? Check it out at http://bookmobiling.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-was-kind-of-fun-to-make-hope.html
More refinements to a "wild reader" -- see Serious Squirrel" in FLICKR.
I spent a ton of time playing around. My favorites are The Generator Blog, FD's Flickr Toys, and Dumpr. Here's the link to my first blog.
http://rockinref.blogspot.com/2008/11/image-gens.html
Here are 5 more fun images using various image generators.
http://rockinref.blogspot.com/2008/11/image-gens-2.html
I had a great time playing at Glassgiant.com
Check out my fun oh I mean work.
http://dawnlearning.blogspot.com/2008/11/playing-around-with-thing-10.html
The image generators are fun and there are so many that you can play with. My Blog
This is a lot of fun, but I just don't have a lot of time to be playing around with this stuff.
Really enjoyed playing with the image generators. http://t-beyondthemargin.blogspot.com/2008/11/fun-with-image-generators.html
I'm really feeling my age now. So far haven't gotten the image to show up on my blog, so will try again tomorrow when a coworker comes in who is better at this than I obviously am! Tomorrow sometime will be take 2 on image generators.
http://lauranloveslibraries.blogspot.com/2008/11/image-generators.html
http://nanvac.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-10.html
I have worked with image programs previously but none from websites - I have software that does some of these things. It was easy to do a magazine cover once I figured out what they wanted for the user name!
I have no trouble "playing." And, image generators are a lot of fun. It's stopping the play and getting back to the mundane stuff.
http://bookexotique.blogspot.com
/2008/11/thing-10.html
This is a picture of our cat, Sugar. He has been a part of our household for fifteen years.http://joyesfirstblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/magmypic.html
I had a blast with the generators! I can see how they could be used in the library.
http://danaslearning.blogspot.com/
Wow this was a lot of fun. i took a picture of one of my summer reading kids and made a card. I can see this thing as being a great tool for summer reading. I could make my own flash cards with some great pictures.
here ya go - Thing 10
http://tinklestein.blogspot.com/2008/11/thing-10.html
I chose the jack o lantern on generator blog. I spelled out "Halloween Fun at the Stromsburg Library"...it then loaded the animation. It was pretty cool.....I posted the jack o lantern at http://kathysbookshelf.blogspot.com I thought it would be cool to have this on a library web page announcing a halloween activity for teens.
Playing with these image generators just demonstrated to me that I need to take different kinds of pictures. I need a lot more head shots of people! I did enjoy playing with the Custom Computer Keyboard and the Einstein thing, both of which can be viewed at HPLmeanderings
This was interesting. I can see lots of uses from some of these. I made a poster and thought about how kids would love to have posters made of them reading.
Thing #10 was really fun. I like the magcover. The girls will love seeing their pictures on the front page of a magazine.
http://jeanslearning20.blogspot.com/2008/11/magmypic_16.html
http://troglodyte-librarian.blogspot.com/2008/11/image-generators.html
Here is my image generators post:
http://baskataloger.blogspot.com/2008/11/play-around-with-image-generators.html
Thing 10
Was fun! I liked the Dynamic Einstein Picture resource.
http://csweb2-cs.blogspot.com/
This could be a real asset for being creative next summer - since I am not!! Imagine doing trading cards with kids for SRP. Or a magazine cover, or their own book cover, etc. . .
http://judyg-oldlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/11/using-trading-cards-and-magazine-covers.html
Ok, there's fun to be had. Need to read more comments of others to see practical applications, perhaps
My blog: http://raptorrunn3r.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-about-flickr.html
Thing 10-
I had fun putting my name on a "Hollywood sign". These image generators are such fun!
See my blog at
kathysings.blogspot.com
http://carol-hoorayya.blogspot.com/2008/11/nebraska-learns-20-thing-10.html
I have been using Photoshop for five or six years and love create new things with it. If I don't move on though I will never finish the 23 things. My post http://prairie-prose.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-have-done-magazine-covers-for-sports.html
http://wordsbycheryl.blogspot.com/
Amazing things can be done if you have the time to create.... HEY. What summer reading fun!
I created a magazine cover which was so easy! You'll have to check it out on my blog page. I can see that these Image Generators will be loads of fun and as I said yesterday I think we are only limited by our own imaginations. Now to find the time to play around...that is the challenge.
http://thelibrarianspeaksout.blogspot.com/2008/12/magmypic.html
My coworker Anne assisted me with posting a fake magazine cover to my blog for Thing #10. She's making all of this fun!
http://marieloveslibraries.blogspot.com/2008/12/magmypic.html
Thing #10 is now finished.
THING #10 is Really finished!!
http://marieloveslibraries.blogspot.com/2008/12/magmypic.html
I did it!! That was fun! It took me awhile - but there it is!
http://liziej.blogspot.com/2008/12/thing-10_7433.html
I used mag my pic to showcase my son's orange belt!
http://quillscribbles.blogspot.com/2008/12/thing-10.html
That was fun - how can people come up with those programs! I made a tag for the library . . .
http://tiffanylearns20.blogspot.com/2008/12/thing-10-image-generators.html
What a fun assignment!
http://nebrbookworm99.blogspot.com/2008/12/image-generators.html
Well, I put a little something together. Not abad way to spend some time.
http://thecoreysthoughts.blogspot.com/
This is my on-line image editing attempt.
Playing Around With Image Generators http://theantiquarianlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/11/magmypic.html
What fun!
My blog post is at
http://raelearns.blogspot.com/2008/12/image-generators.html
Read about my image-generating adventure here.
Thing 10: AKA What NOT to say to a librarian.
Thing #10
http://chocolil-librarybooks.blogspot.com/2008/12/holiday-with-girls.html
Already had an actively used Flickr account. Added this poster from a picture already on Flickr. More about how I use Flickr personally on the blogspot. Pictures can be seen at
http://flickr.com/photos/8333456@N05/3142359429/in/photostream/
Posted by Sharon M. Jones at 7:27 PM
Forgot Blogspot addie
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6371643157851160682&postID=462587161166231593
This could be a lot of fun. I liked the idea of creating a deck of cards from my photographs.
http://leanablue.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-creation.html
I had so much fun with Thing # 11. I used MagMyPic to do this one.
http://leanablue.blogspot.com/2008/12/magmypic.html
#10 This was a lot of fun. I created a trading card for our grandson and than added my family to Flicker so they can add pictures also. The students would really enjoy the trading card idea and it gave me an idea for my computer classes. Picture located at this address:
http://flickr.com/photos/32754716@N07/3148926315/
Wow! I didn't know there were any such things as Image Generators - as they say, you learn something new every day! They were a lot of fun to try - some worked, some didn't. My blog is at:
http://kerikreations.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10.html
My favorite so far. I had no idea things like this were available without buying some fancy program - and it is easy!
http://nebraskalearnsbksrgr8.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10.html
I made a trading card for flickr using http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
Now all I have left to do is upload it to the Librarian's trading cards and my blog!
http://1pigeonracer.blogspot.com/
Oh yeah, this was definitely more play than work. Maybe I went overboard posting images from five different generators, but I had a blast! At least I worked Ranganathan into it. :-)
http://angelakroeger.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10.html
What a fun time. I used MagMypic to make a teen cover of my 1 year old grand daughter. Here is the Blog URL http://lakeverna.blogspot.com/2009/01/teen-naomi.html
And if you want to see my comic strips of Naomi you can go here: http://www.mccookdirect.com/naomi/naomi-fp.htm
Steve having fun
Here is my Blog comment on Thing #10:
http://dmcdnut.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10-time-consuming-but-fun.html
and my magazine cover:
http://dmcdnut.blogspot.com/2009/01/our-kitten.html
Jigsaw fun....see my post at http://lllearnersblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10.html
Yipeeeeee I finally figured out the Blogger photo upload tool! http://lllearnersblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10-revised.html
See the darling fake magazine cover of my newborn grandson here:
http://ilikelibraries.blogspot.com/2009/01/magmypic.html
Read about the fun I had making the magazine cover here:
http://ilikelibraries.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10-magmypic-generating-images-of.html
Make your own magazine cover here:
http://www.magmypic.com/
I used Read mini posters image generator to make a poster - fun.
This is the last of what I had skipped. I used the ALA mini-poster generator. It was fun and easy. http://einekleinemusik.blogspot.com/2009/01/image-generators.html
Blarg. Photograffiti.
http://milfordlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/generators.html
I did not have much luck with this one, but I am going to try it again when I get a faster internet connection at home. I can see this would be a great time waster. I can hardly wait until I am retired to waste time.
Blog at http://quiltingranny-jag.blogspot.com
Too many things to try out, but it was interesting.
http://carla-carla20.blogspot.com/2009/01/thing-10.html
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