Digital Storytelling

The first App we explored today was another of my favorites, PicCollage.

PicCollage is a fantastic app for creating a collage of a family vacation, a poster on a particular subject, or a flyer for your team's end-of-the-season party.  Students used photos from the classroom and of themselves - supplemented with stickers, text, and backgrounds to create gorgeous designs.  Be sure to check your email as we sent MANY of these collages home! :)  

ChatterPix Kids is a free app that allows children to upload or draw a picture and then record sound.

The directions were simple - choose a background, draw a line for a moving mouth, and start speaking! The kids quickly took to the assignment and before we knew it, we had a classroom filled with silly talking iPads!  Although our objective was to have fun, an app like chatterbox could easily be used for book reports, history presentations, and many more academic projects!

Check out our work!

Finally, students used the app, Sock Puppets, to tell a story!