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Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.

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#WEMTA16 PicCollage,Padlet,and Skitch Oh My!

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Padlet, Pic Collage, and Skitch Oh My! Sara Malchow Open up Pandora for pre-session music. Login to Padlet ahead of session. Present from bitly link for ease of clicking on links and large screen #WEMTA16 Presentation Link: bit.ly/MalchowWEMTA

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I love the idea of students creating Pic Collages to showcase their learning. Easily adapted to any grade or skill! Simple technology-based assessment!

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Find images to represent vocabulary and concept knowledge

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Current events, historical timeline, biography

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MLK Story Collage Lesson Plan | K-5 Computer Lab

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Students Create an iPad Story Collage about Martin Luther King Jr.

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Get to know you activity

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All About Me - iPad - Pic Collage | K-5 Computer Lab

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Students use their creativity to create an

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Research and collect information and images to create a poster

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National Parks Story Collage - iPad Lesson Plan | K-5 Computer Lab

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Students combine research and images to create a story collage in the iPad.

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Show steps of an experiment. Embed video clips from YouTube

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Show stages of life cycle

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iPad Frog Lifecycle - Mini Poster | K-5 Computer Lab

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Record and label informational text features

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3rd grade teachers utilized the app, PicCollage, as a formative

assessment on the topic of The teachers checked for understanding and provided immediately feedback/reteach allowing the students to attempt again. At the closing of the lesson, students gathered together to discuss the importance of text features and which helped them the most and why.Text Features. For the pre-assessment, students took photos and labeled 6 forms of text features (caption, subtitle, glossary, index, diagrams, keywords) using the app, PicCollage. The pre-assessments were upload to Dropbox to view and the teachers used these to guide/adapt/modify their instructional teaching according to the student's learning needs and styles.

Throughout the length of the lesson, the teachers presented information/strategies to help their students learn the material through cooperative small groups. Each group had a nonfiction text with all six text feature represented. In conjunction with the active engagement sheet - (see photo below) - each student matched the text feature term with the definition and then cooperatively located the text feature in a nonfiction book.

For the final formative assessment, students will recreated another PicCollage showing their knowledge/understanding of text features.

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PicCollage App as a Formative Assessment? You Betcha'!

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3rd grade teachers utilized the app, PicCollage, as a formative assessment on the topic of The teachers checked for understanding and provided immediately feedback/reteach allowing the students to attempt again. At the closing of the lesson, students gathered together to discuss the importance of text features and which helped them the most and why.Text Features .

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Acrostic Poems

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iPad All About Me Acrostic | K-5 Computer Lab

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Find and label four 3D solids.

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Discover pages with the best links about a subject

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Pic Collage- more than just making posters

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Pic Collage- more than just making posters

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Story sequencing, How to writing

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It is usually the first app that schools download when they have purchased iPads in the classroom and usually the most used app if schools only use iPads to a limited degree. I visit many schools that are full of posters made on Pic Collage, visually great but have no real impact on learning. As an app to enhance learning it is still one of the best, only if teachers use some of its lesser known features.

Firstly, using Pic Collage to create posters, eye catching topic covers, persuasive leaflets etc is an engaging activity for children but shouldn't become a regular lesson. Instead look at other ways in which Pic Collage can be used as a tool in Literacy and across the curriculum.

Take for example the frame layout option, where you can add frames arranged in different ways almost resembling a comic strip. This could lead to a variety of different tasks in which children can use the app. Children could create a set of instructions using the camera and then labelling each picture to describe what it shows. Children could also use the frame layout to sequence a story, take pictures of story and re-arrange them in order of which they happened in a particular story. Take this example from a Year 1 class who used Pic Collage to sequence the story of the Gingerbread man:

Children could also use this frame layout to help plan a narrative or plan a recount, using visual pictures that they could have created on Pic Collage.

Another underused tool that Pic Collage provides is the ability to clip photos (double click the picture and select clip photo,) cut around people and objects so that they can be added to other backgrounds and places. This can be an incredibly powerful tool to help teachers develop drama in the classroom as children can create freezeframe pictures of themselves as characters but then add in the background or location to give it more authenticity. These pictures can then be used to create a comic strip or make a plan for a narrative. Take these examples a class of Year 5 children created when making screenshots from their class novel 'Kensuke's Kingdom.'

This can be edited in Pic Collage to create images like these:

Children were able to creatively make screenshots from the book based on their understanding of the setting as well as the characters feelings, facial expressions and body language. Creating pictures like this can also inspire creative writing, children physically being able to see themselves in a particular location or setting. It maybe that they create a picture from history and add themselves to it and write about what it would have been like to be there. They can also clip their face and add it on top of another character to see what they would look like dressed as a tudor or soldier or victorian.

These are just a couple of suggestions of how to take a simple collage app and utilise it to help enhance learning in literacy other other subjects across the curriculum, if you can use Pic Collage to create a poster you can also use it to create these other useful pictures all of which can be saved to the camera roll and used within other apps.

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Pic Collage - More than just making posters!

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It is usually the first app that schools download when they have purchased iPads in the classroom and usually the most used app if schools only use iPads to a limited degree. I visit many schools that are full of posters made on Pic Collage, visually great but have no real impact on learning.

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Show concept knowledge such as capacity

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Vocabulary development/ labeling

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Number sense, composing and decomposing numbers

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Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.

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Learn how to use the iPad apps - Skitch & Pic Collage so that students can create products.