I think I am going to devote an entire blog series to the topic of “ideas I had from a pin”. Many times I find a pin that sparks an idea. The pin itself may not have been exactly what I would replicate… but the idea takes on a path and journey of its own.
So, in honor of all of the teachers and educators who follow this blog, I thought I would share and adapt a pin that I found two days ago. A truly sentimental and adorable idea a photographer mother shared. Her daughter was turning 8 and the class used the SMART board to list one adjective that described the birthday girl. I can only imagine how special and uplifting this was for the child as well as touching for the mother. The final product was the picture of the child with all of the adjectives floating around her. Truly, what an amazing keepsake!
App-tastic idea shared from TSJ Photography blog
Of course, this naturally got me thinking about how this sentiment could be achieved on the iPad…
- Skitch or Popplet: Students could take a photo of themselves on their iPad and use the Skitch or Popplet app to have each child add an adjective about them.
- Croak it: Students can then use the Croak.it app to briefly explain why they used that adjective (perfect for an anecdotal story)
- Thinglink: The Skitch photo could be uploaded to Thinglink and then each Croak.it audio file could be linked to the adjective it details. OR, students could just upload the Skitch or Popplet photo and use it as an ePortfolio and link some of their best work to the photo (e.g. podcasts, documents, videos, etc…)
- Book Creator or Strip Designer: Students could also take each Skitch or Popplet photo and create a page for each student as a final class book.
This idea could also be adapted for a teacher or co-worker. Each teacher could contribute adjectives for the student or all of the students could contribute adjectives for a teacher. Or teachers could take a picture of the classroom and have each student use the Croak.it app to detail their favorite memory and then Thinkglink all of the audio files to the class image.
Dads, if you are reading this, what an adorable idea for your kids to create for their mom 
Clearly, there are also curricular connections to this idea (e.g. dynamic and static character traits for fictional or historical characters).
And one more… I know this is
created on a whiteboard, but this could very well be achieved with
Padlet or a pass around
Popplet app-tivity. What a most excellent end-of-year app-tivity!
As I hadn’t time to actually produce an example of this, I would love to see your adaptations of these ideas. If you decide to take on this challenge, email me at lisa.johnson@techchef4u.com with a brief description of what you did and the final example and I will feature it on next week’s blog! Note, make sure you have full rights to publish the product you send.
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