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Do you like doing jigsaw puzzles online? Here is a website that lets you create one from your own picture and then generates the code for you.

The site is called Photograph Puzzle Maker and it is easy to use.

Save a picture to your desktop. This will be the picture you will use to make your puzzle

Go to http://www.flash-gear.com/puzzle/ and “browse” to your picture (pictureneame/desktop)

Wait while the website generates the code

Open NotePad

Copy the code from the website

Paste the code into notepad

Click SaveAs

Give it a name and end it with .html (notepad will make it .txt – YOU have to change it)

Example – picturename.html

If you saved it to the desktop you will now see what looks like an internet shortcut icon with your filename on it. If you double click it, it will open in firefox or internet explorer. You should now be able to work the puzzle.

Addendum

I posted this the day I found it - on the computer I tried it on.  Some folks are having trouble making it work and I will revisit this when I find out what is causing problems.

Google has a new contest - create a logo! Go to Doodle 4 Google read about the original “doodler” Dennis Hwang, register your school, find exactly what the requirements are, lesson plans, the template and more. Your campus tech person should have already received an email about the contest.

Prizes

The National Winner will win a $10,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to the Googleplex, a laptop computer, and a t-shirt printed with their doodle. We’ll also award the winner’s school a $25,000 grant towards the establishment/improvement of a computer lab.

• Each of the other 3 National Finalists will win a trip to the Googleplex, a laptop computer, and a t-shirt printed with their doodle.
• Each of the other 36 Regional Winners will win a trip to the Googleplex and t-shirt printed with their doodle.
• Each of the other 360 State Finalists will receive a “Doodle 4 Google” certificate.

Important Dates:

School Registration Deadline - March 28, 2008

Doodle Entry Deadline - April 12, 2008

The judging will be broken down into 4 age groups and the theme is “What If?”

Haven’t had much time to post here but I thought this was such a neat idea. It’s called Lookybook and it lets you preview children’s book, add them to your virtual “bookshelf”, and even purchase them. You can write a review and read other reviews and share the book with someone else.

Go to FreeRice.com and take the vocabulary quiz - for every correct word they will donate 10 grains of rice through the united nations to help end world hunger.  Here is an example:

Can you say “iCandy”?

http://www.dumpr.net/
has a free and a pay level but lets you apply cook effects to photos.  There are a lot of nice free effects here.

http://www.photofunia.com/
This one was my favorite just because I liked the effects they offered.

http://www.cameroid.com/
Lets you take a picture online using your computer webcam.  You can choose a filter or a distortion method, frame or even scene - kind of hokey but fun.

picresize.com  http://gui.picresize.com/picresize2/
lets you upload photos and resize as well as apply several different effects like soften, sharpen, change contrast, greyscale, ad text, and more.

primpz.com
goofy but fun - upload an image and add props but more important - speech bubbles!  Free and no registration required.