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 discuss how InstaMag,
an IOS (Apple) and Google Play photo collage app, can be used to promote
instruction in the blended learning classroom.
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 InstaMag 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: InstaMag can be
used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is InstaMag?
InstaMag in an IOS(Apple) and Google Play photo
collage app.
Where is InstaMag located on the
internet?
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instamag-magazine-collage/id615187629?mt=8 (IOS/Apple App)
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instamag.activity&hl=en (Goole Play App)
How InstaMag, a photo
collage IOS(Apple) and Windows app, can be used to promote instruction in the
blended learning
Photo collage apps like InstaMag can be used to enhance instruction in
the face to face and virtual classroom 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 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.)
On the next blogpost we will discuss how InstaMag, an IOS
(Apple) and Google Play photo collage app, can be used to promote Judaic
instruction and to mentor/train Jewish educators.
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