Mon 8 Mar 2010
Visual Literacy part 2
Posted by Yapha under My Digital Studio, Scrapbooking
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As part of today’s presentation on teaching Visual Literacy through Digital Scrapbooking, I made up a few scrapbook pages to show different ways teachers could incorporate digital scrapbooking into their courses. I made these pages using Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio. At the end of my presentation I will be demoing how to use the software, as well.
If your students need to do a family history report, a family tree, immigration report, homeland report, or report on a historical time period, a heritage style scrapbook would be a great way to present the information. This is an actual picture of my great great grandmother and her three daughters.
Any type of biography would make a great digital scrapbook. You can find a lot of historical photographs and documents online at the American Memory Collection. Below is a scrapbook page about the world famous aviatrix, Bessie Coleman. (It also was created for this week’s Stampin’ Addicts Scrapbook Sketch Challenge.)
The final page I wanted to show you could be used for a book report. How great would it be to have a every student in the class do a two-page spread as a book report, then make them all into one book that students could look through when they wanted to find something to read? I would love to put something like that in my library!
What other ideas do you have for digital scrapbooking in the classroom?














I LOVE the book report/review idea! Would be very helpful in a library or for a classroom library. It might be neat to have the class work together to make a calendar for the teacher or have them start early in school year and make calendars and sell them as a fund raiser (for holiday gifts) to make money for the school or a charitable cause…like sell the calendars to the parents/grandparents.
What awesome ideas on how to use MDS in the classroom! You go girl! I hope you get some crafty teachers interested.
Super cool ideas Yapha… I love it!
These are really great! what size are they?
Yapha… an Awesome job!! When my kids were young, with me being “in Love” with paper… they first heard…”You’re not just going to slap that on poster board are you!!!!!” lol..lol… since then, they have never looked at a report the same way…. and the world around them….