Word Art is another inroad to literacy learning. There are a number of amazing posts in this Apple Education Community that show how Apple Tools can support literacy. (Search “literacy” in the top right search icon). You’ll also find Every One Can Create Word Art tutorials in the Learning Center.
In social studies, primary source historic speeches and documents are important for analysis practice. The upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, provides opportunity to merge that content with literacy, art, and digital design.
Students can select a primary source document and “pull out” a quote that they find meaningful or important to history. By animating the selected words in Keynote they can emphasize their analysis on the intent of the document. The more students adjust the timing, art and design of the words in Keynote, the more they will dig into the purpose and meaning of those words.
Example - Newspaper source Chronicling America - Library of Congress Newspaper: Image 50 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 16, 1963
What primary source documents do you tackle in history or government classes that might build understanding by having students work with Word Art? Please add examples.
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