Help students build language skills, improve visual literacy and connect learning to the real world with photos in Keynote.
Capture photos and use them to create personalised text that takes show and tell to a whole new level.
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Are your younger students visual learners? Using the Camera app and Keynote on iPad, students can turn text into art while helping them learn the spelling of a word. In addition, students will learn about fonts and how to change, format and insert images into them. Take it one step further by creating multiple slides with a list of words and export them as an animated GIF.
Karen Irwin
Help students practise their phonic sounds by combining text and photography to help them visualise the words they’re learning. Using Keynote on iPad, they can collaborate on a document to create their word list, filling each word with a photograph that represents it and using the Animate feature to spell it out. The Keynote presentation can then be shared as a video or animated GIF for students to review at home when learning their sounds.
Devon Garritt
In this project, students use Keynote on iPad to design expressive photo text art that deepens their understanding across any subject area. Using the iPad camera, students capture original images connected to a chosen word or concept. Then they leverage Keynote features like Image Fill, borders and creative formatting tools to visually enhance their word, making meaning through design and personal connection.
Miriam Walsh
In this creative project, students explore the diverse nationalities within their school community by designing a collaborative motto in Keynote on iPad. They begin by identifying various national flags, capturing close‑up photos representing the colours and patterns found in each flag, and then using those images to create personalised flag designs. The final step involves filling the letters of an inclusive school motto with the custom flag imagery, resulting in a colourful and meaningful representation of unity and diversity within the school.
Jeanne Halderson
Students of all ages can use Keynote on iPad to rethink vocabulary words, portray emotions and show understanding of literary concepts, such as mood, tone, word choice and more. Learners can stretch their imaginations and use the colour, texture and lighting of photos to create an artistic vision that unveils a word’s meaning. Take the project beyond “one word” by asking students to write titles for their poems using multiple thoughtfully selected words.
Marcus James
This creative project uses Keynote on iPad to produce eye‑catching word art that brings vocabulary to life. Mixing their own photos and text, students explore the multitude of different ways they can turn text art into their own personal masterpieces. Your learners will make art that can be used in any content area by experimenting with their photos and developing a new way to look at vocabulary.
