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Thursday 27 August 2020

Online Toolkit with Mark Maddren - Creative Collage for Descriptive Writing

Helpful for kids that are not engaged in writing. Also helpful to teach digital skills such as cropping and masking. 

This is what it looks like: 


All images in EXPLORE is free to use. To change the shape of an image click on crop and then the shape you like. The order in which you stack the images is important. Arrange, order, send to the back... Because of layering, it is important that students think through what they want to be at the background, start with those images, and work their way to the images that should be in the front. 

My attempt: 


Hahaha, this was done in about 6 - 8 minutes. So not very well thought through, however, it was fun doing it. This could now lead to a descriptive writing piece or many other writing possibilities. 

I am definitely going to use this in week 1. I think the students will love this. 

4 comments:

  1. Looks very crafty and a hook for writers and digital skills. Like the use of the cropping tool love the explore button in my slides it takes out the google search and as you say the pics are free 😊. Students on line pics assembled just like we do in collage from background to foreground.
    Draw a picture and write about it.
    Art without a mess. No paper, paint, glue, scissors, drying time, naming, sharing cleaning. Just doing and sharing hmmmm

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  2. I really enjoy the geometric shapes and contrasts. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. This looks like heaps of fun. Kids can create quite interesting characters. Will love seeing them use it for a lesson to create.No mess, no fuss art as well.

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