What a Loser #10: Pic Collage

Pic Collage is a free tool for the iPad that epitomizes creativity. Select pictures from the photo roll, arrange them in your choice of layout, then add text to highlight the contents of the photos. The end result is a project that looks like a high-quality scrapbook page that can be emailed, saved to the photo roll to be used in other apps, or shared as a Pic Collage project. Creative teachers will have no trouble thinking of ways to have students use this app to demonstrate deep learning. Everything from which selection of pictures to use, to what you choose to highlight with the limited space you have for text requires students to be intentional and thoughtful about their creativity. At the substitution of technology level on the SAMR model, this app could be used to support nearly any project teachers formerly required students to do in PowerPoint. Moving towards the redefinition level on that same model, teachers can challenge students to access pictures from primary source documents and resources found from the national archives to represent main concepts they have been studying in social science classes, and create a Pic Collage or a group of Pic Collage projects to demonstrate what they have learned.
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