Week 5, Item 10

There are thousands of image generators available to use however I’ve learned that not all produce code to embed into a web page. For this exercise, my first exploration was Make Beliefs Comix. Several teachers at my school use http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ as a quick summarizing tool. Make Beliefs Comix is a tool that was originally developed for autistic children. I shared this tool with a social worker at one of our elementary schools, and she enjoyed success using the site with a child who was experiencing family difficulties. This tool allowed him to show expression he would not allow himself to display. I learned, however, that created comics can only be viewed or printed not embedded. My comic strip can be viewed
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.php?comix_id=29662908. The instructions mentioned that makebeliefs does not store comics so I’m not sure how long the strip will be available.

My second stab and an image generator was www.kerpoof.com. They’ve changed this site since I first learned about it into a game. Like Make Beliefs, users can view or print the creation. I liked kerpoof as a fun tool for elementary students to summarize landforms. There are many different scenes to choose from to explain what they’ve learned.

My last exploration was jellymuffin. This site is definitely tailored for the myspace user to embellish personal pages. There are many advertisements on the site and I do not think I would use this in a class situation; however, it did give me code to embed for glitter text. There are many different image generators available at this site. (http://www.jellymuffin.com/generators/flash_glitter_text/) When I tried to paste the code into my blog, the code was not accepted. I then went to http://www.familylobby.com and created the "welcome" sign displayed above. Too much work for the result I was looking for but I did learn from the process.