Oh, this "Thing" could suck up a whole day, and then some! So many fun ways to use pictures that we all love to take.
Let me begin with the Trading Card feature. Some of my coworkers used the trading cards at the beginning of the year last school term. This was a great way to help students get to know each other in the class. Others used these cards around the time of their study of birds, and the kids loved getting "bird cards" for good behavior, and traded them at recess. Other ideas? Get students to take pictures of geometric shapes, and then add in physical attributes of the shape. Make "Space Cards" where they get a picture of each planet, and record some facts about it. Teach 4th grade? How about Texas Heroes, or landforms found around Texas?
Ah, but now let's think from a librarian point of view. This is a new way of thinking for me, so if you have additonal ideas, please contribute! What if a student could make a card for each Bluebonnet book they read? Add a short summary, and if they would reccomend it to a friend! Hm, could you put a graphic of a kid-friendly search engine, and then write descriptors of what can be found on that search site to encourge use of other spaces besides Google and Yahoo? Author studies! Who wouldn't want a trading card with Tomie DePaola on it? Or Marc Brown? What a great way to introduce your younger readers to authors!
The magazine cover is fun. I did that with my students last year. We had the priviledge of entertaining everyone with our program "Once Upon a Lily Pad", and my students played the part of snakes. I took a picture of each of them in their costume, and they used that photo to make a magazine cover. They had to think of titles that fit the play, such as "Freddy finds his place in the pond", and "Crocodiles stop the slimy snakes". They had a cute momento to keep in their portfolio!
Putting captions with the photos has endless possiblilities. This requires the skill of being able to be brief!
The biggest frustration can be the editing part. With many of these projects, if you want to edit what has been created, you have to remember to find the "EDIT" button to go back. Clicking the "back" button on your browser makes you start your whole project over from scratch!
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I loved the ideas you had for trading cards. What a great way to get to know each other. Still whenever I think of trading cards, my mind goes to Garbage Pail Kids.
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