keeperofbooks

All these wonderful tools!  We were supposed to investigate just one of the sites, but they are like Lays potato chips–you can’t [investigate] just one.  I had to try them all.  All twelve could be used to promote or support learning.  All could be used with others collaborating in one fashion or another.  The least useful was the Tada list.  Perhaps that’s because I already have a system worked out for a list and reminders.  But all the other eleven tools were super!  I can think of ways teacher/students could use all of them in collabrative ways.  Due to the “at home” availability to all our students, these programs could actually take less time than some projects currently being used only in class.

My personal favorites for myself are Picnik and Mixbook.  That could be because I have files and folders of pictures.  In fact I have an external hard drive mainly for my pictures.  I always have a “Picture Project” going: Photostory of 40 years of family Christmas celebration, PowerPoint for a family reunion, Photobooks for each vacation, etc.  So the very simple and quick Picnik editing and digital scrapbooking really appeals to me.  Then the Mixbook has several advantages over the program I have been using.  It is cheaper, quicker, has more choices, and lets you use more text.  So my next photobook will be a “Mixbook”.

Picnik and Mixbook could also be used to produce a scrapbook of our yearly Book Week and Author Visits.  Students really like to see themselves and their friends in such scrapbooks when they visit the library.  Of course, such a scrapbook would support reading and writing programs.

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