iMove and the door scene project

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Postcard App

I wanted to take a moment to share with all the digital story lovers out in the world this great new app that I have started to use.  The app is called Postcard and as you would suspect, allows you to generate and create Postcards.  I know what you are thinking, how can this be considered a DS app?  Allow me to explain.

As a Social Studies teacher I find myself having students engage in a variety of projects and in class activities.  The first assignment I had students complete was to create a series of postcards from soldiers on Sherman’s March to the Sea during the Civil War.  The idea was that the soldiers would write home about what the experience was like, what they saw and how they felt.  This type of activity is something I have had the students create every year since. 

The Postcard app is user friendly and easy to use.  You can up load images, chose from a liberty of images in the app or draw your own image.  For written text, a person simple types what they want to say and hits return.  I like the typing feature because it is easy to read and allows you the normal features of Microsoft word like changing fonts or text size.

Digital Story telling is about creating a story.  A postcard or a series of postcards is a unique way to develop student understanding of a concept while engaging a student to think critically about the material.  So send a postcard or better yet have a student or children create their own and send it to you.

Door scene project

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