Here’s a fun way to blend digital and analog. It’s a newspaper story generator. Just type in the title of your newspaper, the date, and the headline. Then type your story. The Newspaper Clipping Generator will then generate an analog newspaper image, which you can download as a jpg file.

The same site has other types of generators, too. Click on the red links at the top of that page. You can make cats speak (or owls, squirrels, tomatoes…):

Or a movie clapperboard:

Or a little wizard writing a (very short) note:

There are a couple of other generators, too. Give them a try, and then try embedding the pictures or mini-animations on your Summer Notebook blogs.