I’ve tried or run into a number of these generators over the time since the original 23 things. I found that Wordle was actually an interesting way to give people a visual way to understand the school library curriculum. Here is the Wordle version of my 7th and 8th grade curriculum:
I find that people can then “see” which ideas are stressed, since the cloud automatically enlarges the words based on frequency.
I haven’t used the Read poster yet (lack of good photos) but plan to in the future. I played some with the BGPatterns and made a new background for my twitter page—check it out! The Tartan generator seems to have a virus attached—beware! I had already made an Obama me, as you can see.
Not surprisingly I have already found the documentation sites, given I am a school librarian. We teach the kids to use these in 5th and 6th grades, on the theory that they can then choose whichever format a teacher asks them to use.
I haven’t really used the comic generating sites before, but I think I could see a potential use for them as part of a class exercise. How about having a language arts class make a graphic version of a story for an assignment?
When I do find fun generators, I generally play with them and put an example in my blog.
Here is a library cartoon that I enjoyed:
And here is one I made:
I can't seem to get this to a readable size (at least at my bifocal stage of life), but if you click on the by-line under the cartoon, it'll take you to the site where it is larger and readable.
I love the colors it came up with and I am tempted to use it as a header for any number of documents or on-line stuff I am doing. But I am going to wait and see what calmer heads might consider reasonable.
