Leticia used collage and publishing ideas from the Everyone Can Create Photo project guide to help her students make connections with words they weren’t familiar with.
Leticia started by reading a story and having her students write down unfamiliar words that they heard. She then created an iCloud photo album with photos that represented these words, and shared it to student iPad devices for the class to study and annotate. Next, they went outdoors and photographed items in their own environment to add to the album.
Photos, annotations, and audio clips were then combined into an ePub file that students could use to review, practice, and build their vocabulary.
Photos allow us to discover shapes, textures, colors, and sounds, allowing my students to create their own reality using an iPad camera, and become authors by publishing an eBook at the same time.