Thing 9: Online Image Generators

I have spent the last few hours playing around with a few of the sign generators.  It's times like these that I wish I was more creative.  I started with the Happy Face Generator.  I think that the different smiley faces are really cute, and they are also quite practical.  At the therapy group I used to work for, we had a poster on the wall with different emotions represented by smiley faces.  Most of the students we worked with were nonverbal, so the chart was there to encourage the children to share their emotions by pointing to the pictures.  With the smiley face generators, you could even add little talk bubbles that say things like "I am mad" or "I am frustrated" to the pictures to encourage verbal students to speak their emotions after they identify them.

I decided to use the Happy Face Generator sign generator to make one of those motivational signs that you see all over classroom walls.  Here it is:

It was actually really easy.  You just replace the text with the words that you would like.  Sometimes you have to mess with the placement of the words a little, but with a little trial and error I was able to make sure that the words fit into the sign.

I played around with a lot of other image generating sights, and I really liked ImageChef.  The problem is, I am really picky and a bit of a perfectionist.  I tried to make a few different things, but nothing really turned out like I wanted it to look.  I'm going to try and go back to ImageChef, but I will need a lot of time if I ever want to use it for a project.