When mentoring our pre-service and in-service
teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically
tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied
in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both
teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a
physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this
section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a
supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and
in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will begin our discussion of how Photo
Collage, an IOS (Apple) photo collage app, can be used to
promote Judaic instruction and to mentor/train pre-service and
in-service Jewish educators.
Assumption: The teacher or
mentor teacher has an interactive white board (i.e. SMART Board, Promethean,
etc.), a Tablet PC (also called a Slate or Blade), a computer presenter or
computer with internet access attached to an LCD projector in the classroom. It
would be ideal if students or mentees had access to their own laptop computers
or iPads. Given parental and school approval, and the development of
specific guidelines, smartphones can be used to enhance instruction as well.
Note: Although Photo Collage
can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, it can be also
be used for training pre-service and in-service Jewish educators for
professional or staff development. It is our hope that Jewish educators around
the globe will form an online community of practice, a CoP, a group of
people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession, to enhance the
delivery of instruction and training of Jewish educators. For example, here is
a CoP you might want to join.
Note: Photo Collage can
be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is Photo Collage?
Photo Collage in an IOS(Apple) photo collage
app.
Why would a Judaic or secular educator or student want to
use a photo collage app like Photo Collage?
Photo collage apps like Photo Collage can be used to enhance instruction
in the following ways:
Ideas
adapted from http://schoolipads.com/2013/12/02/apps-in-the-classroom-pic-collage/
- Students can create a collage of members of the class
- Individual students, pairs, groups of students or the entire class can create a photo book made of pictures and collages.
- Students can create a photo collage make collages themed around shapes, colors, favorite things, words that rhyme, etc.
- Students can create a collage of characters in a book.
- Students can insert collages into their power point presentations, posters, flyers, essays, homework etc.
- Collages can be used to decorate the classroom
The following idea was taken from
- Students can create collages to introduce themselves
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following ideas were adapted from
- Collages can show different and complex concepts like time, energy, evolution, height, etc.
- Collages can display similarities and differences
- Collages can display the culture of a country (music, art, architecture, sculpture, history, geography, important landmarks, etc.)
- Collages can become pictionaries or show different examples of a concept
- Collages can represent the sequence of a field trip
- Collages can be visual poems
- Collages can show the steps in a procedure or scientific experiment
- Collages can be used to display actions or active verbs.
- Collages can be used to display words that have the same meaning in different languages (e.g. peace, shalom, salam, paz, etc.)
Where is Photo Collage located on the
internet?
Where can I find tutorials demonstrating
how to use Photo Collage, an IOS(Apple) photo collage app?
Click
on the links below to find tutorials explaining how to use the photo collage
app, Photo Collage:
On the next blogpost we will discuss how Photo Collage, a free photo collage
IOS(Apple) app, can be used to promote instruction in the blended learning
classroom.
