My students went on a great field trip two weeks ago, and lots of photos were taken. We have a class blog but I thought it would be nice to use the pictures for more than that. I decided to try out Canva for a reflection tool. I have exactly 18 students in my 5th grade GT class. With 10 iPads and 8 laptops, Canva was the perfect choice because you can use either the app or the website to create. There are lots of free templates and text options to choose from, and the students also enjoy trying to different filters on the photos.
I have one class account for Canva that all of the students use. This makes using the app easy because they can stay logged in. Another bonus is that I could upload all of the field trip pictures taken by the group to that account from Dropbox, and the students could choose any pictures from the uploads to create their photo collages.
The students were assigned to find pictures that completed any two of the following:
- One way the field trip connected to something I learned in GT was…
- The field trip inspired me to…
- My favorite exhibit was…
They could use any combination of pictures, and they needed to use some sort of captions to relate the photos to the above statements.
Here are some of their final products:
Every photo collage was different, and I really learned what was important to the students from doing this activity.
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