Image Creating and Editing

So many image tools are available for use, whether you want to use just one photo or several.  I could use these in my classroom for fun activities to accompany whatever topic we’re working on.  I teach earth science at the high school level.  One tool that I really like and think would work great with this age group is the Big Huge Labs (bighugelabs.com).  It allows you to create lots of fun items like magazine covers, motivational posters, and movie posters.  In fact, I like this so much I may have my students do it in class tomorrow!  We are learning about coastal erosion and tomorrow they will be doing a webquest. Since I already have the laptops, once they finish the webquest, I can direct them to Big Huge Labs to create a movie poster based on any topic in earth science.

Another one that I could use in my earth science classroom is Foldplay (foldplay.com). They have a tool where you can make kaleidocycle. Their provided images fit right into the subject matter.  I could see having them make a kaleidocycle of solar system formation when learning the astronomy unit. I made an example using their images.

Kaleidocycle. Digital image.  Http://foldplay.com/kaliedocycle.action. Foldplay, n.d. Web. <http://foldplay.com/>

Other image editing sites allow you take a regular image and add various text and effects to it.  Students could search for a creative commons image on one of the topics in the current unit and add effect or text to it to include as part of a presentation.  Dumpr (dumpr.net) and Tuxpi (tuxpi.com) could be used to do this.

Friday night, I took my daughter to see R5 at the Norva.  We had such a great time!  It’s you’re not familiar, one of the members of R5, Ross Lynch, stars as Austin Moon on the Disney channel series Austin & Ally. We took a bunch of pictures and got this great up close one of Ross Lynch.  I used Tuxpi to modify the photo.