Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Thing 8 - The new Thing 8

I have deleted previous Thing 8 posts, due to SPAM comments. Yes, Spammers are commenting on our blogs.
Well, back to the Thing 8 assignment.
First, I took a look at Jim Bumgardner's Flickr Colr Pickr mashup. Jim took hundreds of thousands of pictures and rearranged them into color wheels. The user can pick the type of color wheel he or she would like to see, for example, "Doors and Windows". I clicked on Doors and Windows and my color wheel was made up of hundreds of photos of doors and windows. This site poses the question of creating one's own color wheel. Jim suggested a starting point for creating one's own color wheel was to see his book, Flickr Hacks. Second, I used a link from the Flickr Colr Pickr and found at cute little application called Flickr Chia Pet. This site did not allow me to save my chia creation due to the nature of computer code that creates the magical chia pet seeds. I did show it to my kids however, who are now in the process of making crazy chia pets out of Flickr images. To see the Flickr Chia Pet mashup, click on the link.
Well, now to answer the questions for my assignment. I don't think that this particular mashup has any use for the math classroom. However, an Art classroom would have lots of fun with this mashup.

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