Thing 6 - mashups

I created a stamp in Big Huge Labs using the framer tool and a photo we took in Hawaii. I plan to have our 3rd grade students create stamps for their state reports. There are so many tools that would be useful to me professionally and personally. This is the site I've been looking for! Our kids don't have access to professional photo editing tools and they are too young to use most of the ones I've looked at. If I can do it they can too. Posters for teachers to make, badges for our bookfair volunteers, biography trading cards, science fair demos, staff trading cards, scavenger hunt type trading cards, writing prompt photos -- too many things to count. Thank you 23 1/2 things!

Thing 5 - photos

This photo was taken by Darren Hesten and found on the Flickr site in the Creative Commons/Attributions section. I liked it because it is the perfect "apple for the teacher" picture with a twist - the colors seem to be the reverse of the stereotypical red apple. The flickr site looks very useful, especially the creative commons section. I especially like the link to the Creative Commons photos from the Library of Congress which will come in handy when we need to have primary source photos in history, art, science, etc... I can also see accessing the pictures for 5th grade world geography projects, 2nd grade animal reports, signs unit in Kindergarten, really too many places to count. But really interesting to me since we are FINALLY getting class sets of digital cameras and this will help us manage.