For this exercise I chose to begin with using the spell with flickr mashup because I've seen it used before on other sites but never knew how to access it until now. I found it fun to search for the different letters but got very frustrated a few times when I accidentally exited out of the page and lost all my work. I found myself trying, whenever this happened, to get the exact letter combination that I had before but quickly learned that this proved impossible. This interactive tool, therefore creates 100% unique and individual looking words! :)
This spell with flickr application would be GREAT for younger children who are just learning to spell because it is fun and allows them to be creative, all while practicing spelling words.
Next I decided to explore creating puzzles with my flickr photos and found it really easy to link up to my flickr account and locate my pictures/sets. However, maybe I just couldn't figure it out, but I found myself unable to customize the look of my puzzle. I was hoping to be able to drag and drop pieces of the puzzle to different locations, to create a completely unique photo.
IF there is a way to drag and drop these puzzle pieces, this would be a great activity to say perhaps learn the states or countries of the world, because students would have to understand the location and boundaries of these pieces of land.
For both activities I could not seem to find any way to post the pictures into my blog other than simply taking a screenshot of them, saving them to my desktop and then uploading them. For the spell with flickr mashup I was able to locate the section where they provided a url code, but when I copy and pasted it into my blog all I saw was the url code, not the cool picture that I had created...
I mentioned this earlier in my previous post but I am not a big fan of posting pics on the web for the public at large to see. Family and friends are the only people that I think both should or would even care seeing my photos.
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