Here are some more 'Creative' resources for The Romans.

A series of make and do activities for your class. All should prove to be great fun and all provide opportunities to develop skills across the curriculum.

Celtic Roundhouse

K'Nex Ballista

Face Pot

Jewellery

Knucklebones

Roman Clothes for a Doll

Roman Recipes

Soldier Costume

Writing Tablet

They aren't all my own work! (Although I did put them into Word!) They are from this site which has loads of good quality resources.

http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/reticulum/funstuffSub.htm

Hope these are useful, and if you know of any good sites for the Romans - please let me know!

(I also make this picture into a 6ft Roman Soldier using Block Posters, it looks awesome!)

Mr W.

Block Posters es una aplicación vía on-line que nos permite crear posters o carteles de gran tamaño a partir de imágenes pequeñas, con la condición que no pesen mas de 1 MB.

Ahora ya podrás crear tus carteles o grandes afiches para decorar tu cuarto o casa a partir de esta aplicación. La única desventaja es que al ampliar demasiado las imágenes no mantiene la misma resolución original por lo que se recomienda trabajar sobre archivos grandes y con buena resolución de imagen.

El procedimiento consta de tres pasos, primero subimos o cargamos la foto, luego elegimos la cantidad de páginas de ancho que queremos que quede de grande y el papel que usaremos y finalmente creamos el poster, lo que nos generará un documento en PDF de unas cuantas páginas listo para descargar e imprimir.

Una excelente opción para crear avisos de gran tamaño. Existen otras aplicaciones similares como The Rasterbator que es más completa y con más opciones, pero en materia de sencillez Block Posters es más fácil de manejar.

En su página web podrán encontrar una galería de imágenes que los usuarios han creado.

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Enlace: Block Posters

Block Posters è un servizio online che trasforma le nostre immagini in enormi poster - formati da fogli A4 - da stampare ed appendere :P

Il procedimento è semplice, uploadiamo un'immagine - di massimo un mb -, selezioniamo l'orientamento dei fogli e salviamo il file pdf generato. E' caldamente consigliato utilizzare immagini ad alta definizione e non foto scattate col cellulare..

A questo indirizzo trovate le foto di alcuni utenti che hanno mandato i loro posters :P

¿Necesitas hacer afiches para mostrar algo?

Cualquier cosa que quieras tener a tamaño gigante podes hacerla con Block Posters, una página que te permite subir una imágen y luego la redimensiona y recorta, ubicándola en diferentes páginas en un archivo PDF.

Son sólo tres pasos muy sencillos :

Paso 1- Sube tu imágen.

Paso 2- Elige en cuantas páginas la quieres (el programa te dirá cuanto medirá la imágen, aunque lo hará en pies).

Paso 3- Abre y/o descarga el archivo en formato PDF.

Listo, ahora solo tienes que imprimirlo.

Sólo un consejo, en lo posible suban fotos grandes (de 1024 * 768 pixeles o mas) porque de otra forma el poster quedará muy pixelado.

Step 1: Upload Your Image

Clicking this link on the website will take you to an upload option where you may upload the file of your choice. The maximum file size you may upload is 1mb, however, the dimensions may be as large as you have them, so long as the size does not exceed 1mb. So browse for the file and click the upload button. It may take a while depending on your internet speed.

Step 2: Slice Your Image

There is amazing flexibility here. The paper size you may choose for it to print on are either A4 or Letter size (US). The larger you want the image, the more sheets of papers you will have to use. The default I get everytime is 4 pages. At the bottom, it will show you the approximate size of the final poster that you will put up. You may go pretty wide. The following file had a maximum of 10 pages in width and 5 pages in height. Please choose wisely as to whether you want it to print in Landscape or Portrait format as this significantly affects the number of pages to be printed.

Step 3: Download Images

Here the system gives you a link to a PDF file that you may download for your use. Print these off individually, combine the slices (using tape on the back or pasting them individually on the wall using sticky tack or any other method you find convenient or efficient).

Art Ideas

You may use this service to print off a photograph, illustration or company logo. You may print out a wedding photograph, or a newborn baby's. Even photographs of any movie you love, or a quote. Decorate your children's wall with images from a cartoon or their favorite stuff toy. Hey, decorate your kitchen with pictures of fruit or just your room with a picture of yourself.

Experiment with having pixelated final images, or gridded images. You may paste them straight on your wall or frame them. Try seeing if you can achieve an effect where you cut the image in different shapes to make them look more artsy.

Advantages

This service is free. The only thing you're technically paying for is printing paper and ink.
You may experiment in different ways to come up with creative ideas. You are pretty much free to do whatever you want, however you want.

Disadvantages

There may be copyright issues if the image isn't yours.
It gets tedious to cut out the white borders of the images if you want a perfect final poster.
If the alignment messes up and the printing is slightly tilted for one "slice," it takes away from the overall look.

If you get a chance to use this service, please post a link to your art piece in the comments box :)

Cherios!

because bigger is better.   especially when its free...

so i was straightening up my smugmug account and decided to see what 'goodies' they had for the pro users.  i came across 'wallhogs', a print really big picture/poster site that can provide an image up to something like 7' x 4' on various mediums.  they offer prints on vinyl, canvas, and poster paper stuff.

the process seems pretty easy too.  pick your photo, upload and send to wallhog.  then in 3 days they claim to have your item in the mail ready to go.  pricing on this seems ok i guess.  it depends on the material you choose to print.  i haven't had a chance to check it out, but i decided to keep on searching.

i came across one guy's post about making a cool wallpaper from a photo for his son's bedroom. 

the idea was that you pick your photo, find a printer offering the service (wallpaper installation) and provide them with their spec requirements - in this case 150dpi at full res.  cost was approx $5 per square foot. 

based on the above image, looks really cool - but a bit steep for my cheap ass.  i'll keep searching. 

finally i came across block posters.  same idea, different layout, & cheaper.  lets try FREE.  so basically its the same thing.  you pick the photo you want to use, upload to their site, and adjust the size you want.  but instead of waiting 3-5 business days you get an instant .pdf file of your image ready to go.

basically the image you upload is sliced into individual pages that you can use to 'paste' together.  i decided to try it with my recent simpsonized picture (which is way cool too, so check that out while your at it.) 

this is a snapshot of the final product from block posters  ---->

since i was at work and fortunate enough to have a color printer available, i went ahead and printed it out.  once it printed, i taped them all together and i have to admit the final product is pretty darn nifty. 

 i now have the yellow simpson version of me hanging in my cubicle.  it's awesome.  my pick of the bunch runs with block posters.....