Thing 8 - Sharing is "FUN"damental

(Sorry - couldn't resist on the title)

This "thing" reminds me a lot of things #4-6 and my experience was much the same: there are COUNTLESS programs out there that can do just about anything you want and it is good to get familiar with a fraction of them. For this thing I decided to try and start something that will be pertinent to my job (which I haven't even officially started yet) and created a mosiac on BigHugeLabs featuring a few books that I know will be new to my library in the fall. Again, this kind of stuff is VERY easy to use and great for promotional type things such as this.

Now I have a question - the few things I have "created" through this series have consisted of images I have taken off of the net (like the book covers you see here). Am I going to get tazered by the copyright police? Seriously - is this a bad thing to do?

Thing 6: Image Generating

Undoubtedly the possibilities for these sorts of tools is endless and they really help the artistically challenged (like myself). I think the promotional possibilities are obvious (trading cards, posters, logos, etc.) but I also think that tools such as this woudl be appealing to students to use for special projects, etc. I know going back to my elementary days - this would have been fun to try with the students and I think they would have eaten it up.

To wrap up things 4-6: There is a TON of cool stuff out there and at least now having a passing acquaintance with them is very beneficial. I don't know if I can handle too many more accounts/passwords, however!