Week 3, Items #6 and #7

Mash ups and making curriculum connections occupied my time today. I sat down early this morning to complete all the items in Week 3 and I'm now ready to post and move on to the next week. I tend to become preoccupied with explorations and then two hours later remember the reason why I originally sat down at the computer.

I enjoyed the following sites during my wanderings through the Flickr mashups:
Quick Online Tips (http://www.quickonlinetips.com) I found this to be an interesting site full of things to explore.
Big Huge Labs (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/). This site has oodles of ideas on how to use Flickr and ultimately multimedia project ideas for the classroom. Some of the project ideas I came up with through this site are:

Create a pocketmod: http://pocketmod.com This site helps the user create a pocket guide for just about anything. My thought was to use it as a gimicky review for a test. One down side is that new information cannot be typed--only a template can be made for the user to handwrite information.

Framer: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/frame.php This is a cute way to add a frame to any picture.

Captioner: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/captioner.php

I saved the best for last--I can envision students having fun while learning if a teacher posts images to a flickr account and they have to come up with an appropriate caption to paraphrase the picture. My explorations can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/ tag is: zeweb20tourist. I'm not sure; however, if keying in the tag listed above will display my account. I need to explore the publishing options as I think I marked them for family and friends only.