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 PiZap, an IOS (Apple), Android 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 PiZap 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: PiZap can be used
in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is PiZap?
PiZap in an IOS(Apple), Android and Google Play
photo collage app.
Why would a Judaic or secular educator or student want to
use a photo collage app like PiZap?
Photo collage apps like PiZap 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
The
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 PiZap located on the internet?
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pizap-photo-editor-collage/id642936943?mt=8 (Apple App)
- https://www.pizap.com/lp/pizap_android_app (Android App)
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalpalette.pizap&hl=en (Google Play App)
How PiZap can be used to promote Judaic instruction
and to mentor/train Jewish educators
Clink on either on the links
below to see and hear a video demonstrating how PiZap can be used to promote
Judaic instruction and to train/mentor pre-service and in-service Jewish
educators.
- http://youtu.be/QT-kGfZlwxY
- http://www.screencast.com/t/WNfc9Jvx
Below you will find
a sample PiZap photo collage image of the many different faces of the Jewish people.
On the next blogpost we will begin
our exploration of another photo collage app, Photofy.
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