I loved the Mosaic Maker and I think it would be a wonderful tool to share important parts while booktalking. Adding visuals with pictures from Flickr and discussing visualization while reading is an important skill that all students should develop. Students could also use this tool as an alternative to book reports. It would be similar to using a story on a string, so the storyteller keeps the events in order and remembers all the important points, but now we integrate technology.
Mappr is a great application for books like, The Middle of Somewhere. As the story unfolds and the family travels from place to place, each spot could be noted on a map with a postcard/photo and a snippet of information about the event could also be included.
I had a little trouble with the trading card. I decided to crop the trading card so it wouldn't be so large on the post. Maybe I should have just resized the image. I think this might be a great idea for our Revolutionary War Hero research project that we complete in fifth grade.
I think that the trading card app would be a lot of fun for your students' Revolutionary War Hero project-cool idea!!
ReplyDeletewhen you upload you pictures like the trading card you do have a choice of sizes that would help with your need to make things smaller.
ReplyDeletealso you can always resize the file before importing in a phot editor or even something like powerpoint and then save it in a smaller size.