This week was called "play week" and they told us to go explore something fun. I was curious about image generators, so I went to the cartoon site they list in the course and made a few cartoons with captions.
Basically, the site has hundreds of cartoon images with empty captions. You can put a title on the image (above the cartoon) and then fill in the bubble.
I have to say, it was not worth the effort. The site I went to was not ready for prime time. It took forever to load each image, then it took a lot of trial and error to get the image to look right, and if it didn't you couldn't just tweak it you had to START OVER! Then the only way I could actually use the image was to copy it to my hard drive. I could never figure out how to bring it directly from the image generation site straight into my blog. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be able to do that.
Still, it was kind of fun. If you want to see the results of my work, you can check out my moodle class (Tech Project). I decided to freshen up my page with new images. I like the result and finished all the images, despite the fact that it took so long.
In summary, it was a huge time sink and like I said, not worth the effort. I keep wondering how this might fit into a class. Sure you could have the kids generate an image with a slogan for a project, but does the learning match the amount of time it takes to create the projects? I have mixed feelings about this.
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I signed up as a follower of your blog. Hurrah. I am not sure what the glitch was but I am off and running now. You will be able to help us with image generators. Could you stop by the library and show me or if I am not in, could you show Debbie? Thanks for moving ahead....
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