Stories in Flight
Just copy and paste or type a little text and it will search for the pictures that go with the work or text in Flickr and turn the text into images. Wham, an instant digital story.
Warning: be careful using this software though. Michael Zimmer of the blog Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness said that he put in the title of a blog, and happiness showed a picture of Guinness Beer. I tried my tag line from my website “Technology is Opening Minds with a New Set of Keys,” and keys, got strange stuff, I had to keep clicking Show Story!! I think Michael is correct in assuming that images are chosen based on the tags that people give them. So, it might take a little digging to get just the right set of images.
Click the “show story” button till you find pictures that you like.
It is kinda like Spell with Flickr , type a word then tell it to SPELL and it finds pictures of letters and spells your word. Again you click on the letter to you find one you like and there are literally thousands of possibilities.
This could be used for short poems, sections of a speech or historical document. Would be a great way to turn famous quotes into pictures as well. There is a big kick in vocabulary, this would be a great way to create images to correlate to vocabulary that students are using in the classroom, especially for a certain unit of study. I really like this tool for turning words into pictures.
