I-M-A-G-E Lightbulb: An Old Joke for Thing 13

That joke used to crack me up as a kid. If you haven't heard it, you ask someone to spell all these words adding "lightbulb" at the end. When they spell "image" and say lightbulb, well, you get the picture. And yes, I've been a word nerd my whole life.

I really enjoyed messing around with these things and wished I had more of my own pictures to run through the image generators that need photographs. So mostly I just used what was available.

First I went to Smiley Generator and messed around with those for awhile. I had just read Rhonda's comment to my rant on usurers, and she says she must just be a hippie at heart, so I made her this:

I made one for me too that reflects my mood this weekend. Funny how when you make these things, they are better if they are sarcastic and obnoxious. Or maybe that's just me.

I moved on then to ImageChef. It was here I was wanting my own photographs as I thought this was pretty cool.
ImageChef.com Poetry Blender.

The poem is a haiku I made up last year and is no reflection on the former or current principal of my school; it was actually just a joke concerning an FR question that month. My sister and I have haiku wars over email sometimes; I told you I was a word nerd. While I was there, I also discovered I could make my own soccer jersey. Cool, I thought. So I made that little number right there. Then I left that site and moved on, wondering exactly what my students would do with these that could be educational, and how much class time they would spend decorating a project instead of putting the flesh on it.

While I was cruising around, I remember a co-worker once sending me a link to a make your own lol cat picture. So I went there and spent much time messing around with that. And this is what became of that little excursion. I did have an awful lot of fun playing around on these various sites, and I could see that they could most definitely make presentations and things more visually interesting. But like most cool things, when you are going to set kids loose on them, you better be prepared to lose the entire class period as they monkey around. These sites, at least in high school, are probably better introduced, and then part of the assignment that should be done at home.


I will probably try to put some of these things on my wiki simply for the experience of trying, but for now, I'm going to stop before I get that same eye-pinching strain like the flickr experience. Where does the time go indeed? And when is a door not a door?