Image Generators and Mash-ups

This particular tool/set of tools seems to be a great addition to the bag of tricks that we are beginning to acquire. Just from the little experience I have with Animoto and Flickr to showcase some photo shows of my students and Health Fitness events such as Run for the Arts, S.O.A.R (students offering academic relationships) and many more school and community events. It seemed very promising when seeing these tools I am familiar with mentioned along with Wordle, Dumpr, Spell with Flickr, and many more which I am not as familiar with. Therefore I attempted to sort through each one of these sites offered under tool 3, and the ones that seemed to be user friendly were the ones I mentioned above, Dumpr, Spell with Flickr, and Wordle. In my Wordle example I listed the Fitness Components that we use in our curriculum presently, which can easily be transformed and flipped into a lesson or at least an introduction/lead up for the objective that day. The wheels are slowly but steadily beginning to spin (quality versus quantity), and the more I am thinking of how I will incorporate this within my every day teaching. After completing a few of the tools from number 3, this seems to be progressing in a positive direction, because it is very similar in the way I create my lesson plans. I think that times are changing at the speed of light when it comes to technology, and most of the things they are discussing in this blog, our kiddos are already using this or something of the same nature. The neat thing I would like to see though, which I am sure they have already created is to have this set up on our phones, and then we could use our phones to manage everything, versus lugging around a huge laptop. I imagine this will eventually replace paper, notebooks and overhead projectors all together. There is a new tide of things coming in, and we just need catch on the wave.