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
PicPlayPost, an IOS (Apple) and Google Play 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 PicPlayPost
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: PicPlayPost can be
used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is PicPlayPost?
PicPlayPost in an IOS(Apple) and Google Play
photo collage app.
Why would a Judaic or secular educator or student want to
use a photo collage app like PicPlayPost?
Photo collage apps like PicPlayPost 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 class 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
The following ideas were adapted from
- Collages can show different 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 PicPlayPost located on the
internet?
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/picplaypost/id498127541?mt=8 (Apple App) and
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flambestudios.picplaypost&hl=en (Google Play App)
Where can I find tutorials demonstrating
how to use PicPlayPost, an IOS(Apple) and Google Play photo collage app?
Click on either of the links below to find tutorials explaining how to use the
photo collage app, PicPlayPost:
On the next blogpost we will discuss how PicPlayPost, a photo
collage IOS(Apple) and Google Play app, can be used to promote instruction in
the blended learning classroom.
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