I choose spell with Flickr as my new tool to research. This tool is very easy to use, it is quick and very accessible to anyone with the link. Spell with Flickr allows you input a sentence or phrase of text and it will search flickr for user uploaded content containing those letters that compose your words or phrases. Then you can embed the results in any web page. This tool allows the user to be creative with their typography. This tool is great to use in conjunction with blogs or wikis. I will be able to use this tool with teachers in my instructional sites. This tool has presence because it is available anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. It allows for modification because you can use it to modify your own content and make your blogs websites or wikis more interesting. You can also control the type of results you get by choosing to spell as many times as you would like. This tool relies entirely on user generated content because all of the letters used to spell text are taken from photos that users have uploaded from around the world. This is a very socially connected tool, because it connects your text with the content of millions of other users. This tool requires the social participation of others. This tool can help people who might struggle with creativity when it comes to making websites, wikis, or blogs more engaging to look at. This tool provides a quick easy way to add elements of interest to any content on the web.
What a fun tool! Thanks for the tip! :)
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ReplyDeleteI would love for you to be my tech person or teacher instructional coach. This is wonderful to use with students across the curriculum, for criticaql thinking, brain teasers and the like.
I think it is wonderful that nit may be used in wikis too since that is definitely a user driven tool. Authorship is a must using wikis too.
We have the curriculum webpage option for creating a blog. This would be a wonderful feature to include on our webpages as an optional make-up or homework assignment for students. Flickr, wikis and some blogs are blocked even in our business ed classes and some students do not have Internet access at home so that is why it would be optional. Printouts could be used and they could do it the hard-manual use your brain way but if they compared and contrasted computer brain power, time saving, people resources and sharing power they would see the advantage of technology use as a tool.
Hello Lauren,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed finding that there was a feature to use building on a very popular Web 2.0 tool like Flickr. You're right, the typography expansion on creativity has totally skyrocketed with this feature because of it's availability to the world, and the populated images that stem from it. You can certainly see the impact of the world views, thus stimulating your creative juices. Thanks for the heads-up on this feature.
Yvan