Thing #9

Welcome to the Things #9 post. In this thing we have been tasked with generating some images. Can you tell I messed with a couple of the generators *grin*. The image at the top of this post is the APSU23THINGS barcode. I found this at the http://www.signgenerator.org/barcode/ website and thought it would be a good image to head this post. The creation was simple enough. All that was required was the input of the text I wanted, click on the generate button and then right click to save it.

In the second image for this post I thought that we should really hear what the great sage Confucius really thinks about the fortune cookies we get at Chinese restaurants. I found this generator at http://www.signgenerator.org/confucius/ and it was also the case of inputting text, generating image and then right clicking and saving.


The last image for the lesson is a picture of me. You can tell its me cant you *grin*. This is from a really cool picture to ascii text generator. Now everyone can see what pictures looked like on the net in the 80's. The website http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/ allows you to upload your image and it then generates the image. As it is text you cannot right click so I used the screen capture application on this system to get a copy.

It is amazing the number of generators that are available to people on the web. If you think of something you want to do for a class, google it and there is a good chance you will find it. Do you want to put a caution sign up for the groups you created in class then generate their own custom caution signs. The ability to be able to make these signs gives people an artistic output that they might not have been able to before or would have taken them hours to complete. The use of these Web 2.0 tools empowers the user and as a rule makes contributing to the web easier and more fun.