Today I had the opportunity to watch Jennifer Wolfe teach her First Graders how to use an app called TurboCollage. This was a wonderful experience for a couple of reasons. One is that I had never used this app so I learned something that I could share with teachers. The second reason was that I got to see some wonderful teaching. It was evident that Jennifer had done her homework. She knew the app backwards and forwards and she had put a lot of thought into exactly how to pace the instruction to fit the needs of her students. The students were engaged and on task the entire time. Jennifer is an expert in the field of classroom management and it is an amazing thing to watch.
What she was asking them to do was not all that simple. Earlier in the week, the class had used their iPads to take pictures of shapes around the campus. They imported the pictures into TurboCollage, chose a border for them, moved them all into place, used the text tool to write the name of each shape, and then titled their work and saved it to the Camera Roll. And the results were precious!
What she was asking them to do was not all that simple. Earlier in the week, the class had used their iPads to take pictures of shapes around the campus. They imported the pictures into TurboCollage, chose a border for them, moved them all into place, used the text tool to write the name of each shape, and then titled their work and saved it to the Camera Roll. And the results were precious!
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