I must admit that I loved this week's assignments. I love to manipulate pictures and the tools in the sandbox had so many different things to play with. Here were some of my favorites:
ImageChef is a website where both text and images can be manipulated. The site is easy to navigate and user friendly.
I was impressed by the "Make Visual Poetry" feature. It would be an excellent way for students to create their own writing heart map. A heart map is a visual of heart where students list the things they love. This is an excellent reference point for them throughout the school year when selecting topics they would like to write about. In the past, my students have handwritten their heart maps in their writing journals. However, ImageChef is an excellent and more engaging way for the students to create their heart maps in the future.
Foldplay is a website that is easy to use. I can't wait to use the foldable books with my students in school. I like how they give directions on how to cut/fold the little book and it is adorable when finished because it's a tiny book. I'm thinking of using this the last few days of school to let the students make Memory books using our gallery of pictures at school and write short blurbs about what we have done in class. I think it will be a fun way to remember the school year.
Big Huge Labs combines your digital pictures with fun templates to create one of a kind projects. You could upload your digital picture, then create magazine covers, puzzles, or posters. This could be a great site to use for creative writing prompts. Each student could also make a trading card of a famous American or a famous explorer. Students could exchange the trading cards with one another to review important SOLs. I made a trading card for Jackie Robinson as an example.
McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Image modified from: Sandberg, B. (1954). Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers. Retrieved from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackie_Robinson,_Brooklyn_Dodgers,_1954.jpg CC-0
Creative Commons Image
Here is a photograph that I found on the internet. Google images was very helpful. I used the tip that Dr. Kimmel gave us about searching for a photo using the search tools to limit the search to a photo that is labeled for reuse or labeled for reuse with modifications. My students had to write animal research reports and frogs were a popular choice.
Balboa, C. J. (2007). Red-eyed tree frog. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_eyed_tree_frog.jpg CC-0
This is what the frog looks like with modifications using Tuxpi.
McGuire-Day, J. (2016). Image modified from: Balboa, C. J. (2007). Red-eyed tree frog. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_eyed_tree_frog.jpg CC-0
I really liked what I saw on Tuxpi loved the frog picture. I can see this seclusion concept being used to pull out the key components of am image as one would passages in text. Actually, I can see the two being done simultaneously in a higher-level, critical thinking style assignment. Nice!
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ReplyDeleteYour choice of a colorful photo is smart and allows room for manipulation. Taking it into Tuxpi and making part of it black-and-white is very effective. I am inspired to think about using this technique in the classroom to show content learned so far in color and those concepts not yet learned in black and white, or vice versa. This also reminds me of documentary films, and could help any audience to be more engaged, as Reynolds points out in our book.
Reynolds, G. (2014). Presentationzen design: A simple visual approach to presenting in today's world. San Francisco, CA: New Riders.
I love your idea of making trading cards for famous people we study in history! I'll be attempting that *next year*!! Great job on your frog picture as well. I played around with Tuxpi too and really enjoyed it. I think I need more practice on using it effectively, but I can already see many cool ideas coming from it. I also like your Memory Books idea. Too bad we only have 2 1/2 days of school left - not quite enough time. Next year! Great ideas here!
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Jacqui,
ReplyDeleteLove your idea for generating ideas for writing inside the heart. I'm going to use that one next year. Also, with the Social Studies SOLs changing next year, there are a slew of new people we will be teaching in 2nd grade. The trading card idea is genius!! I tried Kid Pic and found it to be extremely easy to manipulate. The kids would love it. I thought it would be great to put a picture of the person in the middle and type text on the picture to tell the important events of the person in the picture.
The effects you used, Jacqui, on the frog picture were so eye catching, and I loved what you did with the trading card. I think the trading cards have terrific potential in a language arts classroom (describe character traits, give details about authors).I can't wait to use them next year.
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