I have spent way more time than I probably should have playing with image generators this week. I have used Wordle and Tagxedo quite often in the past, but have pulled away from both due to incompatibilities with current technology standards in my district. I turned my efforts to finding an application for student tablets that might do the same thing. The simplest one I found for free, with minimal interruptions from ads was Wordsalad. I was able to create the following image fairly simply by typing in a word list, choosing from 3 layout options, and picking a color scheme. I was able to save my image to my pictures, but had to edit the image to crop out advertisements for my final product. I would love to use this with students, but will need to verify that the application is available for student devices.
My favorite find of the day came from Motivator on Big Huge Labs. This site allowed me to generate a poster by either uploading my own image, adding text, and choosing a border and print color. The educational potential for this site is immense. For upcoming lessons, I could feature using this to have students create posters to represent our digital citizenship code as we begin tablet deployment this week. Classroom teachers might use it to have students create posters to go with accountable talk examples or for illustrating classroom expectations. I could also see using it in reading to tell the theme of the story, identify character feelings, traits, or character relationships by taking a picture from the book and adding text to clarify thinking.
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