iPhoto+Connections

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Fun ideas using iPhoto. "If I were President . . .", "A Living Alphabet", and links to many more ideas. http://web4j1.lane.edu/tilt/tools_teacher/workshop/iphoto/

[|Big Huge Labs] This site is way too much fun. Create puzzles, movie posters, vocabulary cards, trading cards and much more. Download this pdf from Tracy Hutton, a Salina curriculum technologist, who presented this at MACE.

[|Voice Thread] - Easily create an online slide show with audio recordings. Browse through these to see some great examples. By changing your setting in Voice Thread others will be able to add their comments to yours. Great collaborative tool for student projects.

[|Flickr] - This is a site where you can store your photos and share with family and friends. Also a great place to get pictures for digital projects.

[| VisualLiteracy.pdf] What is visual goes into the long term memory. Start a unit with a visual. [|MorgueFile -] this is a great place to download pictures. You do not have to register. Click on archive and you'll see an extensive list of categories of images. Lynell suggested we watch the YouTube video called [|Sullivan Ballou's Letter]. Notice the music, the photos, and of course, the message.
 * Visual Literacy: Equipping Students for a Visual World** presented by Lynell Burmark (Spotlight Session)

__Trading Cards__ The following samples were made in Keynote using a table: 2 rows, 2 columns. Go to Keynote Preferences to change from pixels to inches. Make the width of the table 4 inches and the height of the table 5 inches. Then each trading card will be 2 x 2.5. The line down the middle is the folding line. The horizontal line is the cutting line. Fold the cards then laminate. I made trading cards for all of my students. On the back of the card I put important information: parents' phone numbers, health concerns, siblings. This was a tremendous help to the substitute. I've also had students make trading cards, using a real trading card as an example. On the back of their card they wrote an auto-bio poem. Students can make trading cards for explorers, famous Kansans, birds, flowers, trees, on and on and on! It's great to have a box to put these all in. Show your students how a box (as in a deck of cards) is made. See if they can design one themselves for their cards in a drawing program (like AppleWorks drawing). Here are some instructions in making trading cards using AppleWorks drawing. These can be printed, cut, folded, and laminated.