Using Google Picasa to edit pictures and publish them in a blog is simpler than I thought it would be; so are the other image generator tools. These tools would be good to use for signage and other promotional materials. I'm still thinking about how to incorporate them into student projects so that students come up with a meaningful product.
So far I think that some of the comic strip generators lend themselves best to projects, such as an alternative book report or to incorporate into a book trailer.
For Thing #11, I added the del.ici.ous toolbar to Explorer and imported and tagged my bookmarks. So far I haven't shared any, but I suppose that high school students working on a group project might really benefit from this tool.
The del.ici.ous toolbar really slowed down the start up of my iGoogle page, so I ended up removing the program. For me, it would be really useful only for a collaborative project.
I had the opposite experience with Thing #12, Rollyo. I tried importing the sites that my 8th graders use to research Greek mythology, but Rollyo returns way too many hits for that age group to use effectively. I would predict that the students would gave trouble keeping their citations straight, too. Navigating one pre-selected site at a time, and citing it, works better, especially since the reading level of some of these sites is pretty high. I want to try using Rollyo for the sites I look at for free knitting patterns. I think it will work well for that.
