Wow!!! We have had an amazing time using some creative apps in our Literacy groups.
We were lucky enough to begin a unit on Poetry this term. We looked at Acrostic Poems, Limericks, Shape Poems, Cinquains and we have just started learning about Diamantes. We're now ready to take on the challenge of the Poetry Festival in Term 3.
We began with Make a Martian and Comic Touch. All of us were surprised by how many different martians we could choose to create. This encouraged our creativity and allowed us to make some fun choices. We enjoyed the fact that our martian didn't have to look like anything that really exists. After we finished creating our martians we then used the Comic Touch app to add speech to our martian. The results were very funny. We all enjoyed using both these apps in our literacy rotations.
We were lucky enough to begin a unit on Poetry this term. We looked at Acrostic Poems, Limericks, Shape Poems, Cinquains and we have just started learning about Diamantes. We're now ready to take on the challenge of the Poetry Festival in Term 3.We used two different apps to create poetry. First of all we used Puppet Pals to create a funny limerick. The fun part of using this app is that we were able to voice record our limerick onto the app and play it back. This was great because we could use the expression in our voice to enhance the limerick. We found we had to speak quite loudly into the iPod touch to make a clear recording. We are lucky enough to have discovered that we can hook our iPod touch to our speakers, so everyone can listen to our wonderful limericks.
TypeDrawing was the most recent app we have used. This was a perfect choice for the creation of our shape poems. In class, we created a variety of different shape poems, so we were pretty confident putting one together using TypeDrawing. First of all we had to decide on a topic for our shape poem. Once we had perfected it we were ready to use TypeDrawing. This app was really popular with all of us. We could type in the text, using a font of our choice and a font colour of our choice. Magically, our finger did the rest! All we had to do is draw the shape of what we had chosen as our topic and it magically appeared on the iPod screen in front of us. The words we had typed in for our poem created the outline of our drawing. This was lots of fun!!!
Hi, 3w I like the sound of type drawing and I get
ReplyDeleteto use it.Jacob Scott.
Hi 3W, did you like the fete, I did.
ReplyDeleteAll fete'd out for this year, bring it on for next year.
AJ Quinlivan
Hi 3W I am really excited that my Martian was posted on our blog. I didn't think that anyone would guess that a boy made the cool girl Martian. My favourite apps on our Ipod are Halloween Chicktionary and Air Penguin.
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HELLO ME (3W) I Love the i pod's. they are AWSOME,I hope you read this.BYE
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My Dad downloaded TypeDrawing on his iphone.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite app on the ipod is Pop match. I am going to download it onto my Ipod touch at home. i love ipods.
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when we played make a martian I didn't like the sounds but I did like the app:0 Bec
ReplyDeletei love make a martian i would put it on my i pod but i only have 0.30.i have comic touch and i put it on my ipod and used it with make a zombie :) THX for reading!:olachy-lan(:
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