PicCollage is one of my favourite apps to use in the classroom. It can be used in so many ways. Essentially it is a poster creating app. You can use your own photos or pictures from the web ( you can turn the web function off too which is handy). Text can be added and manipulated. Here are some of the ways I've used this app with 6year olds.
- Poster about school holidays that included photos of holiday and text recounting their holiday experiences
- Follow up reading activity, one group created a poster about Mount Everest with facts and pictures.
- As a maths homework task students had to photograph 3D shapes around their house and label them
- For science students created a healthy eating poster that had to include a healthy eating message and these were displayed around the school
I have found that students will create their own posters at home and email them to me. I recently had this Christmas themed one sent to me.
