classroom uses for autocollage
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Here are some classroom ideas for autocollageTRANSCRIPT
AutocollageSelect a folder of photos, push a button and watch as your
images get swirled into a collage.
To put a picture on your blog or classroom door that incorporates everyone
History lesson: The last eight kings and queens of Great Britain
A header for a blog or website
Thanks to Bart Verswijvel
A way of remembering everyone’s names or displaying their work
Pictures from a project or outing can be collated as Lisa Gair‟s
students at the Rock Academy did for their “Adopt-a-Donkey”
project.
Primary school learners made collages of symmetrical
pictures as a maths assignment.
Learners from Grade 2 at St John‟s College in Joburg selected
themes related to what makes South Africa great from an 8-
year old‟s perspective. This learner chose “Sunsets”.
This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
These learners from Berea West Primary in Durban made an
Autocollage of polygons and then wrote a song about the properties
of these shapes and sang it using Songsmith. I‟ll show this when I
get to „Songsmith‟.
This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
One of the attendees of the Partners in Learning Institute, Bart
Verswijvel from Belgium, used AutoCollage to make a game
(combined with Powerpoint).
This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
A stimulus for writing about moods and feelings. „What are they
feeling?‟ „What are they thinking?‟
This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
Use it is a background for a PowerPoint presentation.
Some other ideas that
could work well
• Make a card from the class for some occasion
• Creative writing exercises – ‘How does this make
you feel?’ ‘Moods and feelings’
• Book cover for a planning book
• Create a vocabulary exercise using PowerPoint
and store it on a blog
• A collage of a novel’s characters
• Put this on to a talking photo on a blog
• A record of a lesson with everyone showing their product
What ideas do you have?