One of the flickr mashups that I played with was called alpha learner. It was originally designed to tteach the English alphabet to pre-school kids but I thought it would be nice to modify it to show various physics principles (e.g. Newton's 1st Law and pictures various collisions, table cloth tricks, etc. pop up). Flickr color picker would be useful in the light unit of physics when I need images of different colors to illustrate various points. Also while looking at flickr chiat pet which has no educational value but was fun to play with. You can take any flickr photo and add chia pet seeds to turn that object into a chia pet. I also liked the trading card tool for teaching famous scientific figures
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Using the trading card tool to teach famous scientific figures is a great idea! If this image generater is blocked at school I've found some more to try.
ReplyDeleteOkay~I have to admit, I'm a little, no a lot scientifically challenged but I really liked the Disney picture you had up so I read this post. I can't follow the science you're discussing, but I know that the students LOVE to use the computers to manipulate pictures and they learn more when they are using technology and doing something they like. I bet, I would be less challenged had a been learning in a classroom where these tools were available. Great job!
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