Tech Tool of the Week: Pic Collage

This week's highlighted Tech Tool is an iPad app called Pic Collage.  Pic Collage is a fun, easy-to-use app that allows you to quickly and easily create beautiful photo collages.  Import photos from the iPad's Photo Library or Facebook, or download images from the web.  Using simple touch gestures, you can add photos, then resize, rotate, and move them around.  You can even crop photos or change their borders.  There are lots of fun backgrounds and stickers for you to use, too!  When you're done, share your collages on Facebook, Twitter, or email.  In addition, you can order a postcard of your collage online and have it shipped anywhere in the world! 


Pic Collage would be a fun and easy tool to use with students.  Think about ways this could be used in the context of a project you already do in your classroom.  What topics do students study in your class?  Students could find images on the Internet about a topic using a kid-friendly search engine, then make a collage of the pictures they find.  They could create a collage of pictures of their family, their friends, their interests, etc.  There are so many possibilities!


To give you a sense of what the collages might look like, here are a few examples of collages created using Pic Collage from the Pic Collage website.