Several years ago, I used a post by another Australian librarian
as a basis for my class to design a book cover for Children’s
Book Week in Australia. This week my students designed a book
cover using the following online sites. - The title came from
Random Article link on left hand sidebar of Wikipedia - The
author’s name was created from Random Name Generator - Students
used word generator to get the search term for their cover
image. That search term was used in Flickr CC to choose an
image. Students then saved all three results and created a book
cover using MS Powerpoint or MS Paint, saving the final file as
a jpg and adding it as a post on their blogs. What worked well:
- Students were engaged - Most completed the task in 50 minutes
but did not have time to place it in a blog post. - I used it
with 13 year olds. Care may need to be taken with younger
students as one topic from wikipedia random articles was not
suitable. Care may need to be taken with the photos as well. -
Great teaching lesson on creati