Thing 6

I looked around and explored the various Flickr Mashups and found the MAPPR and Mosaic Maker were my favorites. I especially think that the Mosaic Maker could be used in art classes, math classes and reading classes. Students could find pictures revolving around a theme and make their own mosaics. Art may be studying a certain concept that could be illustrated through pictures and grouped for a mosaic, like perception. Math classes could be studying number theory that could be supported by pictures, like fractions. Reading classes could be discussing setting, character, mood, etc. and develop mosaics using pictures to illustrate each literary term.

MAPPR would especially be useful in our Spanish class when they study countries and, of course, history could use MAPPR for many projects. Our 7th grade history classes studied a unit on Native Texans. It would have been great for them to use a map of Texas and incorporate pictures for their tribes on the map.