Using PicMonkey to organize the art room iPads
We've been using the iPads a lot lately-- my Grade 3's made claymation movies, my Grade 5's went to the local grocery store to do stop motion animation with whatever they could find-- it's been a blast.
Organizing the content, however, has been less fun. The problem lies in the kids remembering which iPad they used when they return to class for Day 2 of a project. Some would forget to write it down or forget where they wrote it down--- it was a disaster and class time was lost to kids flipping through every iPad to try and find their content. Not good.
Enter one of my late night Pinterest sessions and I saw a post here where the teacher created wallpaper with the number of the iPad on it. Genius! How had I not heard of that? I gave my Grade 5 students a challenge-- create new wallpaper for the iPads using picmonkey.com. They did not disappoint, and with some of the wallpaper they created, I don't think forgetting iPads will be an issue any more (especially Black #4, yikes!)
Organizing the content, however, has been less fun. The problem lies in the kids remembering which iPad they used when they return to class for Day 2 of a project. Some would forget to write it down or forget where they wrote it down--- it was a disaster and class time was lost to kids flipping through every iPad to try and find their content. Not good.
Enter one of my late night Pinterest sessions and I saw a post here where the teacher created wallpaper with the number of the iPad on it. Genius! How had I not heard of that? I gave my Grade 5 students a challenge-- create new wallpaper for the iPads using picmonkey.com. They did not disappoint, and with some of the wallpaper they created, I don't think forgetting iPads will be an issue any more (especially Black #4, yikes!)
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