Nov 19 2008

suzievesper

Having fun between milestones

Posted at 9:32 pm under Design, Wikis

I know that I am supposed to be hunkering down to read all the milestones and variations coming my way and I am mostly doing that but having a bit of fun helps keep a person sane! That is why I have been enjoying playing with Elf Yourself – a tool designed by the Jib Jab site where you can add up to five people’s heads to elf characters in a variety of dancers. Here is a band of Twitters dancing up a storm. See if you can spot @klandmiles, @teachernz, @allanhk, @heymilly and myself @suzievesper.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

While speaking of Xmas (and yes I know that we haven’t even reached December yet), I have been working on updating my Christmas Links wiki from last year in time for the festive season in schools.

You can find a large range of sites, games and activities related to Xmas on this site.

Christmas Links Wiki

As you would probably have guessed from all of this, I am quite a Christmas freak. I could play Xmas music all the time if it didn’t drive my husband to absolute distraction :-)

Finally, moving away from the whole Xmas theme and getting back to colour tools there is Idee Labs.  You can use this to find images based on colours of your own choice or from particular images. I think this would be great when exploring the moods of colours or just wanting to create a display around key colours. Here is a screenshot of the images that I generated by choosing the red and green colours you can see on the far right.

Idee Labs Colour Search Results

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One Response to “Having fun between milestones”

  1.   mrsbuwcon 20 Nov 2008 at 11:48 am 1

    Hey Suzie! WOW! We’re famous! Thanks for making the Elfyourself – it was so hilarious to watch.

    I am also a Christmas freak, and drive my family mental with the constant Christmas Carol playing and OTT approach to tinsel.

    You may have started something terrible with the link to Jib jab. I can’t seem to resist the urge to play around with it, even though there are hundreds of other things I should be doing.

    Thanks for the distraction!

    Keri-Lee

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