This was the most fun 'thing' we have done yet! I thoroughly enjoyed using all the different mashup tools, but I like the Spell with Flickr and the Jigsaw pictures the most. I chose to make my images about something important in my life, my sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. I was able to spell out the shortened version of my sorority and also make a jigsaw from the picture of one of our events. This was a lot of fun for me and it gave me the opportunity to share information with all of the readers. I think that same kind of thought process could be used in the classroom with students. A fun assignment for students, espeically in my subject area high school English, would be for them to use some of these mashup tools to create a presentation to teach their classmates about a specific assignment. Along the lines of my selected novel Wuthering Heights, each student could be given a specific event or character to tell the class about and be able to do so using these mashups in a short powerpoint or something similar. Both of these programs were very easy to use and could be done also by middle school aged children. I feel that sharing pictures online can be very beneficial for the sharer and those viewing the images, but it must be safe and students and individuals should be encouraged not to put images on the internet that he or she does not want seen by everyone.
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