Thing 5: Mashup

I had never heard of Mashups, but I had fun exploring them and the third party tools. I found several interesting ones at Big Huge Labs including the Bead Art that is below and the Pop Art Poster where you can turn a picture into Andy Warhol poster.

I tried the Spell with Flickr, which I am sure students would love to try to see their own names spelled with different images. I had some trouble inserting the images to the blog, but I was finally successful.



I also looked at some of the third party tools and I found the AlphaLearnr. The AlphaLearnr allows students to click on the different letters of the alphabet and see pictures of a word that begins with that letter. It is a neat tool, yet each letter only has one word. I also tried the Color Fields Colr Pickr that Dr. Wilson had in her blog. It is also an interesting tool where you chose a color and different public photos of Flickr come up;  students could select a color, and then write and describe the different images.

These are very fun tools that I enjoyed, and I am sure that students would also have fun exploring them.