Thing 8 Flickr Mashups

I uploaded some of my own pictures on Flickr so that I could play.  I made the photograph journal of our trip to the Smithsonian.  Neat!  I used the Mosaic Maker to make this.  I wasn't real comfortable with adding pictures of my family, as I just am not sure that I want to have pictures floating around on the world wide web for anyone to grab just in case I had a bad hair day and forgot to click "private".  It's better to err on the side of caution.

I also made the following with Big Huge Labs Billboard toy.  Aren't my puppies cute?  It says Chillax on the billboard.

While I enjoyed spending an enormous amount of time playing with many of the fun tools that mashups provide, it was insane how many hours I wasted just playing.  Good thing I'm in this class and can honestly tell my husband that I'm doing homework!

Seriously, I do see the fun in creating neat things, like my billboard above, for personal use.  It's great to share photos and be able to manipulate their presentation, too.  I could also see that for extra credit in the classroom you could encourage students to engage in this time intensive, yet fun, tool.  I don't think that I would let elementary students use these tools, as they may not have the where-with-all to be sure to make pictures private.  Middle schoolers would have a blast with this and I'm sure they wouldn't have as tough a time creating as I did.  Technology skills are still in the infancy phase for me.  I'm sure that by the time I've finished this class and Thing 23, that I will have at least reached the teenage phase!  Drive on!