I decided to play with the Flickr mashup called “Spell with Flickr.” This was extremely easy to use. All you had to do it type in the text and it spelled out the text using different pictures. I love the way words look by using this application. I can see myself using this in my place of work. For example, I could use this for making headings for newsletters, bulletin boards, or websites. Each week, I create a spelling activity that I call letter tiles that has letters in boxes. Students cut and paste the letter tiles to make their spelling words. I am going to use this application to make my letter tiles for next week’s spelling assignment. I think the varying pictures will keep my first graders interest more than if I use the plain font. I feel you shouldn’t post photos online if you don’t want everyone to see it. You can put privacy settings on photos, but I generally don’t post anything I wouldn’t want the whole world to see.
Do you have the hyperlink for this Flikr tool? I use Flikr a lot, but had never seen this one! I definitely can see this being a fun activity. I want to share it with my friend that is an art teacher because she does an entire lesson on how things in nature can be perceived as something else. Thanks for this neat tool!
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