Postcards+from+the+classroom

Postcards from the Book It was a review chapter. We're at the start of the year and a review of previously learned (or should have learned) material can be deadly for both student and teacher. We decided to punch it up a bit with "postcards from the book". Each student was assigned a section in the chapter for which they were to create a newspaper front page style postcard as summary. We used the [|Lifecards] app to create these works and then emailed them so that we could open them in [|Goodreader] and display them on the front projector. It was one class to prepare and two classes to present and augment. In all, it was a nice little diversion from the typical review activities, but I can think of lots of places this would be handy - particularly in the social studies or history classroom. Here is a sample of the student work: