Classroom uses for AutoCollage

Classroom ideasfor Autocollage

by Fiona Bealfionabeal@gmail.com

AutocollageSelect a folder of photos, push a button and watch as your

images get swirled into a collage.

To put a picture on your blog or classroom door that incorporates everyone

History lesson: The last eight kings and queens of Great Britain

A header for a blog or website

Thanks to Bart Verswijvel

A way of remembering everyone’s names or displaying their work

Pictures from a project or outing can be collated as Lisa Gair‟s

students at the Rock Academy did for their “Adopt-a-Donkey”

project.

Primary school learners made collages of symmetrical

pictures as a maths assignment.

Learners from Grade 2 at St John‟s College in Joburg selected

themes related to what makes South Africa great from an 8-

year old‟s perspective. This learner chose “Sunsets”.

This teacher used Worldwide

Telescope to find images of the

solar system; he wrote a song

about space; and he made his

own movie using Movie Maker.

These learners from Berea West Primary in Durban made an

Autocollage of polygons and then wrote a song about the properties

of these shapes and sang it using Songsmith. I‟ll show this when I

get to „Songsmith‟.

This teacher used Worldwide

Telescope to find images of the

solar system; he wrote a song

about space; and he made his

own movie using Movie Maker.

One of the attendees of the Partners in Learning Institute, Bart

Verswijvel from Belgium, used AutoCollage to make a game

(combined with Powerpoint).

This teacher used Worldwide

Telescope to find images of the

solar system; he wrote a song

about space; and he made his

own movie using Movie Maker.

A stimulus for writing about moods and feelings. „What are they

feeling?‟ „What are they thinking?‟

This teacher used Worldwide

Telescope to find images of the

solar system; he wrote a song

about space; and he made his

own movie using Movie Maker.

Use it is a background for a PowerPoint presentation.

Some other ideas that

could work well

• Make a card from the class for some occasion

• Creative writing exercises – ‘How does this make

you feel?’ ‘Moods and feelings’

• Book cover for a planning book

• Create a vocabulary exercise using PowerPoint

and store it on a blog

• A collage of a novel’s characters

• Put this on to a talking photo on a blog

• A record of a lesson with everyone showing their product

What ideas do you have?