Honor the Famous with Breakfast

Friend of mine recently commented that the school cafeteria offered Green Eggs and Ham in honor of Dr. Suess's birthday. She was grossed out. I got to thinking it could have been worse, they could have been honoring H.R. Giger, the guy who designed the creepy monster for Alien. My imagination took over and the following four breakfast dishes flowed out of me before I could stop.

There may be a lesson in here somewhere....just not sure where?

(3/4/2010)

Update:  Had a friend ask, "What about Warhol?"  So one more breakfast dish.

[Images all mashed up from bits and pieces of other pictures. Use them as you will]

Search Engines in the classroom

Was preparing for a short demo on Google for my multimedia kids the other day and thought I would look around for some new ideas and content. Clicked over to Larry Ferlazzo's excellent site and found a link to Twenty-three interesting ways to Use Search Engines in the Classroom put together by Tom Barrett.

One idea I'm going to try soon is kind of the reverse of a scavenger hunt. Rather than give the kids a topic and have them create a search to find the item or subject, reverse that and give them a picture of what they are going to find. They have to figure out the search criteria. Sounds like a fun challenge.

Check it out....you're bound to find one thing you can use!


[via Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…]

YoungMe:NowMe

Yesterday's post reminded me of a contest ZeFrank, a popular blogger, ran last year called, YoungMe:NowMe. Essentially, you find an old photograph of yourself as a child or a baby and then recreate the exact pose with you as an adult.

I think this would be a great idea to use with a class of kids who need a digital photography assignment. Or a fun staff activity. Or just fun for the sake of having fun. I am trying to get my family interested in doing this for all the adults. Then I want to take the results and put them in a photobook. I'll let you know if they say yes and maybe post some of the results.

The shot shown at the top was the winner.

[Image captured from YoungMe:NowMe site]

Imagine Finding Me

Chino Otsuka has a unique collection of photos. She took old snapshots from her childhood and Photoshopped her adult self into the scene. The gallery is called Imagine Finding Me.

I loved these photos and of course while looking wondered if my students could pull this off? I think this could be another interesting project for a photography or multimedia class. Students would have to give some thought to lighting. Clothes. Shadows. Scratches.

It could be fun for kids. Fun for me to grade.


[via Monsters and Rockets]

Looking in the Past

Here is another idea of a project you could aim at your students. Take an old picture and hold it up in front of the location where it was taken. Take a new snapshot with both the new location and the old picture in frame.

Sounds complicated when I write it out, but take a peek at Looking into the Past Flickr group to see lots of examples. It's a terrific effect.

I'm going to set up a lesson around this idea for the fall. I'll update you once I run it through a class.

[via Neatorama]
Image: Flickr: "Looking into the past"; Uploaded on May 29, 2009by jntolva; http://www.flickr.com/photos/ascentstage/3577469096/in/pool-lookingintothepast (Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic)]