Introduction
Generators? No, not those gas powered back-up things. Rather, the generators you will be exploring are Web sites that allow the easy manipulation of images and/or text.
Adding an image that has been manipulated or mocked up to a blog is often a simple process. Usually, the Web site page provides a code to be copied and pasted. If a code is not provided, 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.
Explore
Explore different image generators:
Joyce Valenza, in her SLJ blog NeverEndingSearch, illustrates a few of her personal favourite image generators.
Connect
In addition to creating images for Web sites, newsletters, or bulletin boards, generators can be used to enhance teaching and learning.
- Image Generators:
Use an interesting image as a story starter. For example: Using the star image on Hollywood Boulevard, a teacher or student could add the name of a character, a famous person, or any name. The students could create a story about how that person got his/her very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Media study students could explore the persuasion of advertising and create an image to "sell" a new product or sway the audience to their point of view.
- Comic Strip Generator:
Create a cartoon or a comic strip to summarize read text, highlight a significant excerpt from a story, or to examine text types and/or graphic novels. For example, students could compare the elements of the narrative text form of Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown stories with the comic strip form.
Reflect
Post the result of your discovery process in your blog.
Include a link to the image generator, so other participants can discover it too.
Include a link to the image generator, so other participants can discover it too.
