Wordfoto to Start the Year & the Class Blog
Posted by Lois on January 13, 2013
Getting To Know You #2
This is a similar “Getting to Know You” activity as my previous post except this time using an ipad and the WordFoto app.
Process
- Introduce the students to the idea of the WordFoto so that they understand what they are working toward. Ideally use a photo of yourself with words that describe you that will also be part of the class blog as an example.
- The students can take their photo on the ipad and crop it to the size that will work best.
- They choose 10 words that describe’s them and add them to the word section.WordFoto only allows 10 words (at least in the free version that I was using).
- Choose a style that they like best – there were 8 styles to choose from. They can also fine tune some of the settings.
- Once finished the Wordfoto image can be saved to the Photo Library or emailed.
- The final step would be to use one of the blogging apps, Edublogs for example to post the image to the class blog.
January 16th, 2013 at 11:11 pm
Hi Lois, Thanks for this ace idea for a start of year ‘get to know you’ activity. I was looking for something new to try and immediately downloaded it after listening to your podcast – RU Connected? Have a brilliant 2013! Kind regards, Melinda
January 18th, 2013 at 12:20 am
Hi Melinda
I’m glad that it will be useful. If you send me a link to the finished posts I will try and leave some comments (or have some students make comments).
Thank you for taking the time to leave a message it seems a lost art these days but I find the feedback really helpful.
I hope you have a great year too. Maybe we could get some collaboration going between class blogs.
Thanks again
Lois
January 18th, 2013 at 12:29 am
Hi Lois,
Thanks for the offer of collaboration – my grade 1/2s will be so excited. I’ll definitely be in touch. Thanks for the offer. Enjoy the last moments of your holiday! Melinda 😀