ThingLink is offering free student accounts for teachers. I signed up and challenged my production technology students to honor the life and work of Coretta Scott King by creating ThingLinks for a CSK award winning author or illustrator. I am looking forward to seeing the work that is turned in at the end of the week. My students are applying several apps to bring this project together. They are using the camera to take photos of the books in the school library media center by the author/illustrator chosen. Skitch is being used to crop these photos. Students are using Pic Collage, a class favorite, to create a poster that features one book photo and the author/illustrator's name in fancy font. These posters will be printed and posted along with a QR code that will correspond to the ThingLink created. Students are searching online using Safari to find resources to link to their poster and using worditout.com to create word clouds. As they finish various milestones work is being submitted to Showbie. I am thrilled that my students are moving beyond a single app approach and focusing on solutions rather than limitations.
This is the project example I created.
