Big Huge Labs

I had fun exploring Big Huge Labs.  There were many editing tools available, but I chose to make a trading card from a photograph I had taken at the zoo a few years ago.  Trading cards can help children learn animals, presidents, states, historical figures, you name it! They can be used as trading cards, as collectibles, or as flash cards.  Students can even create trading cards to go along with biographical reports.



Whitley, R., (2012) Friendly Giraffe, edited at Big Huge Labs, (CC BY-NC-ND).  

Image Chef Test

Here is an template that I played around with in ImageChef.  I'm reading Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech right now in LIBS 642.  Some of the poetry in that book is displayed in the shape of the subject of the poem.  I think it is a great visual tool. Students can write short poems, and use ImageChef to create poetic art!

Whitley, R., (2015) Moonlight Poetry, created  at Image Chef, (CC BY-NC-ND).  

Modified Image for Week 2

I started with an old photo of our dog, Wilbur.  He was named for the pig in Charlotte's Web, because he acted like a pig when he was a puppy.  He would push all of the other puppies away from the food bowl, and hog it for himself.  Here is the original photo:

Whitley, R. (2012). Wilbur the Dog. (CC BY-NC-ND).

I edited the photo using PicMonkey.  The two PicMonkey editing tools I used for this image were "poster effect" and "comic bubble".  I really like the fact that the background was blurred out, and Wilbur's image was enhanced, using the poster effect.  It seems to make his eyes show more emotion.  I can certainly see this tool being used for creating posters and captions to accompany book characters, in connection with classroom lessons.  Wilbur is certainly poster worthy, don't you think?




Whitley, R. (2012). Wilbur the Dog, edited. (CC BY-NC-ND).

Creative Commons Image

 

Untitled Image by Breno Machado (CC 0), retrieved from https://unsplash.com/brenomachado.

I just loved this image, and the breathtaking colors.  It's so surreal.  If I could paint, I would paint like this.  Enjoy!

Tagxedo Test

Here's a new tagxedo that was made from the ALA.org website.

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html?url=ala.org&shape=Star&orientation=Any

Answer Garden - Please Participate

Please follow this link to my answer garden!

Welcome to the Lab

Greetings library science comrades and all others who may stumble upon this blog!

This blog will be a test lab for me, as I journey through our library science course, and experiment in a controlled environment.  I am new to blogs, so I will definitely be taking it one step at a time here.

I chose this particular background template for my blog, because of its' simplicity and my inexperience in this forum.  As I learn more, I may experiment with more customization.  For the time being, this template is providing the form in which I can exercise freedom (Reynolds, 2014, p. 19).

The initial font I chose to use is Helvetica.  It is a sans serif font, should be easily viewed on computer monitors, and is "neutral without being boring, simple, (and) contemporary (Reynolds, 2014, p. 19).

Thanks for joining me in the test lab! 

                                                            References
Reynolds, G. (2014). Presentation Zen Design. Unites States of America: New Riders.