I had a lot of fun playing with these apps and it is definitely absorbing! I liked the Color Pickr and I also loved the Retrievr app where you make a sketch (it can look like a completely shapeless amoeba) and then images from Flickr that resemble that shape pop up. It was really neat to see how many completely unrelated images could be linked by shape. With one sketch I got back pictures of babies, snail shells, and castle doors. Pretty cool! Being the linguistic learner that I am, the Spell with Flickr mashup was my favorite. I had a blast plugging in song lyrics, names, and then finally settling on "We the People" to post in this entry. I loved how the mismatching letters seemed to embody the meaning of the phrase. I will definitely be using this tool to create personal projects like headings for scrapbook pages, but I could also see how this application or the Mappr mashup could be used for class assignments. Students could create maps with images and then write a response to how the mosaic of pictures reflects the social and geographical makeup of the area. Very cool!
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