Creation apps are the hottest thing in the classroom right now. Most teachers have PicCollage on their phone for saving memories with pictures from the camera roll. But, how many teachers are using PicCollage for learning? Or, better yet, turning the app usage over to students? I created this presentation for my session at the Margaret Blount Harvey Literacy Institute in Greenville, North Carolina. Teachers will learn why Pic Collage is the perfect app for digital creations, see several examples of PicCollage for reading comprehension and create a PicCollage f their own.

1. for
reading
comprehension
By: Jen Jones

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Why apps for reading
comprehension?
creativity
collaboration
publication

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& not to mention . . .
problem-solving
paperless
hands-on
experiential
engaging
open-ended

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Apps & Common Core
“use a variety of digital tools”
“produce and publish writing”
“including collaboration with peers”
“with multimedia components
(graphics, sound, video) in
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Apps as Learning
Solutions Photography
Audio
Video
Drawing
Text
Internet Research
Retelling Reading
Explaining Content Knowledge
Explaining Center Work
Citing Evidence

6. App: PicCollage
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vocabularyDevelopment

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visualbookreports

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nonfictionretelling

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FictionPlot

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B–M-E

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nonlinguistic
representations

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phonemic
awareness

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partsofSpeech

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poetry

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characterization

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PicCollage Prerequisites

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Text Source: EPIC

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Text: News-o-matic

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Text Source: NewsELA

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Text Source: ReadingA-Z

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Text Source: Books

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Your Turn!
Make & Save
Make & Take

24. Digital Reading Response
1. Take a picture of an organizer.
2. Open Pic Collage.
3. Select Create at the bottom.
4. Select Photos.
5. Select the organizer from your
Camera Roll.
6. Select the checkmark.
7. Double tap the image.
8. Select “Set as Background.”

25. Turn ownership
of the creativity
over to the
students!

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27. Image Sources: Kami Butterfield, Katie Shaffer, Crystal Albo & Me