Ok. That was kind of fun. The final product wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but this definitely has potential.
I used Flickr to make a magazine cover for the book I just finished, Vampire High, by Douglas Rees. Now I can see all kinds of copyright issues with doing it the way I did, but students can have much more freedom with this. Even if you just get a cheap digital camera or a scanner, you can have kids do projects like these to use as visual book reports. This, in conjunction with programs like AR, can not only demonstrate that kids read books, but that they understood them... without the work of reading a book report!
This can also be a great way to highlight student achievements. Who wouldn't want to be able to have their face on a magazine cover to show off to their parents? People could use this as a way to reward the student of the month. This, along with other image programs (like the trading cards to name one), could really help to boost morale among students, teachers, staff, and parents.
And it's FUN!
I used Flickr to make a magazine cover for the book I just finished, Vampire High, by Douglas Rees. Now I can see all kinds of copyright issues with doing it the way I did, but students can have much more freedom with this. Even if you just get a cheap digital camera or a scanner, you can have kids do projects like these to use as visual book reports. This, in conjunction with programs like AR, can not only demonstrate that kids read books, but that they understood them... without the work of reading a book report!
This can also be a great way to highlight student achievements. Who wouldn't want to be able to have their face on a magazine cover to show off to their parents? People could use this as a way to reward the student of the month. This, along with other image programs (like the trading cards to name one), could really help to boost morale among students, teachers, staff, and parents.
And it's FUN!
2 comments:
This would be way cool for book reports, or any reports. We had Flickr until this fall, and now it's blocked. I hope we can work out some way to use this safely at school and get access to it for teachers and students. I would think that we could figure that out. You're almost half way done with the things. Yeah!
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