Thing 5

Chicago Math Fence
Originally uploaded by Sharon Mac98

I spent some time using several mashup's found on the Big Huge Labs site. The one that I found to be just amazing and so simple to use was "Motivator" It takes your photo and lets you add a caption to make it look like one of those fancy motivational posters that the whole world has come to recognize. I made this one from a photo I took of a fence at a park in Downtown Chicago - the park with "the Bean." I can see using this in my math classroom right away. I would bet that if I wrote a formula on the bottom and a correcpoding photo on the top that the kids would pay more attention to it simply because of the formatting. It would be a good way to trick them in to paying attention to the important things. I can also see letting the kids all submit a picture and a caption and making a class set of these to use as a bulletin board or slide show. This mashup alone made Flickr much more worth it to me. I also played with the trading card maker and the ID Badge maker. Both were cute and something that might be nice to add to our student of the month program.