PhotoPeach

PhotoPeach allows you to easily use images and music to tell a story. PhotoPeach also allows quizzes and user comments. Start by defining the goals for the project. Do you want a visual way to communicate a topic? Are you introducing a new topic? Are students trying to demonstrate mastery of a subject? Begin by uploading photos or bringing them in from a website such as Flickr. Arrange them in the right order to tell your story and add your music, special effects such as zooming and captions. Save your project so it can be embedded into a blog, wiki or even Facebook.

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Connections to Strategies
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 * Nonlingustic Representation - use images, captions, and music to introduce a new curriculum topic.
 * Collaborative Learning - each student draws an image and contributes it to a group project. Try the free TuxPaint application.
 * Summarizing and Note Taking - use images to summarize or highlight the most important elements of a topic.

Learn about PhotoPeach
Concise instructions and great examples of ways to use PhotoPeach at TeachingGenerationNow

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Activity - Use PhotoPeach to Visually Introduce a Topic

 * 1) Create a PhotoPeachaccount
 * 2) Upload photos or use photos from an online site to create a project which could introduce or support curriculum. You could also scan images drawn by students and use those instead of photos.
 * 3) Add text and arrange images. Select music or upload your own. A list of websites where you can find copyright free images and music can be found in the Resources section.
 * 4) Create your project. View in story mode and spiral views.
 * 5) Embed this project using "story view" into the //NonLinguistic Strategies// page of your wiki.
 * 6) Write a paragraph under your example about ways this tool could be applied to your curriculum.


 * For additional help with this activity, refer to the step-by-step instructions:** **[|PhotoPeach.pdf]**

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Extension (optional)
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 * 1) Students create a PhotoPeach project which tells about an event in their life.
 * 2) Students create a PhotoPeach project as if they are a soldier writing home about their life in the war or for Michigan history, a person working at a lumber camp. It's easy to find copyright free images to add to the story. For Michigan lumber images, visit this site.

Other Tools for Nonlinguistic Representation
Google Documents provides a collection of tools similar to Microsoft Office, but the tools allow collaborative work which is saved online. One of the tools is a presentation tool, similar to MS PowerPoint. This does require a Google account which requires a valid email address to create.
 * Google Documents Presentation**

Google Earth allows the customization of placemarks with images to tell about a location, tell a story, or even create a timeline about events. Placemarks can include images, video, text, links, and more. For some ideas visit: Google Earth Across the Curriculum
 * Google Earth**

PhotoStory is a free storytelling application which requires the Windows operating system. Its strength is its simplicity to easily create compelling stories with images, text, audio, and music. Finished stories are saved in Windows Media Player format for playback on the computer or uploading to a site such as YouTube.
 * PhotoStory**

Prezi is an online presentation tool. It allows a user to visually present ideas. It has a unique design allowing presenters to present in a format very different from the traditional slide-to-slide presentation format used in PowerPoint. The link takes you to the free student/teacher account site which provides an enhanced version with additional features (no ads, more storage space, privacy options.)
 * Prezi**

TimeToast is one of the easiest to use online Timeline applications. If a student wanted to document their life in a timeline with images, this easy to use program would be perfect.
 * TimeToast**

VoiceThread is one of the tools you will explore as part of Summarizing and Note Taking. Like many of these tools, they can be used to support a variety of strategies. VoiceThread is useful for nonlinguistic representation.
 * VoiceThread**

**Wordle**
Wordle is a tool that allows you to create word clouds - graphic representations of a piece of text with the frequency of a word determining the size of the word in the cloud.