Displaying Student Work with Picasa Web Albums

This week we had multiple assignments where in the end students published their final works on Picasa Web Albums.  Those assignments were both a representative flag of the Second Continental Congress' belief that the colonists had better "Hope for Peace, Plan for War."  In our research of this saying, we learned that few examples exist which depict this slogan.  So, our students made their own flags, which can be seen in the following web album:

Hope for Peace, Plan for War Flags

Along with each flag students had to write a descriptive paragraph about their flag which stated why they chose a particular symbol and used certain colors.  

This week our students also created color poems.  Their color poems had to be about one specific color, and spoke about what that color reminded them of, what it smelled like, tasted like, sounded like, and more. Once students completed their color poem they entered them into Tagxedo, which is a word cloud generated.  This generator is unique in the fact that it creates clouds that can be formed into specific shapes.  Students had fun with the clouds, but the goal was to see if their color was the word that appeared to be the largest on the cloud.  As you can see in the following album, most of our students colors will jump out at you...the clouds are pretty artistic as well:

Color Poem Word Clouds

Enjoy!