After completing Thing #7, this task didn't seem as challenging to accomplish. I had fun browsing around all of the different Flickr mashups and plan to utilize many of them in the future, as I love to dabble in photography! The two applications that I chose to use were both through Big Huge Labs. The photograph on the left was created through Captioner. It allows you to upload personal photographs or pictures found from the Creative Commons of Flickr. After you add your photo, you can then create and drag fun captions onto your image. The little boy in the picture is my nephew and I always giggle when I look at it, because he was so excited! This application allowed me to eccentuate the emotion that he was exuding with a cute caption above exclaiming that, "it really IS Santa!" Too cute. The photo to the right is a personal photo that I took this past summer at Disney World of Cinderella's castle. The application that I used to play around with the image was called Jigsaw. As you can see, it allowed me to upload my photo from Flickr, create a jigsaw image of the photo, and save the new image to my desktop. I then uploaded both photos into my blog.
I definitely see how photo applications such as these could get addicting and time consuming! They are easy to create and allow for a vast range of creative fun that can be implemented into classroom decor, a classroom blog, or even educational activities inside the classroom. As far as sharing photos online, I feel fairly comfortable with it, as I would never upload anything too personal anyways. I think that as long as you safeguard your images, then you should be okay. There were many different links that were shared on the http://www.apsu23things.blogspot/ that I bookmarked for future use. I am excited to have completed this task and look forward to the next challenge!
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