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Booksnap

Booksnaps can be a fun way for students to share their thoughts about books or texts.

Students can  create a booksnap by taking a photo of the text that they are reading, and then adding their own thoughts, drawings and comments to the image. They can underline text, circle text, and add emojis and other doodles to the image to illustrate their thoughts and questions about the text.

Educator Tara Martin, who created the idea of book snaps, had her students use Snapchat to create their book snaps, but you can use other tools as well. (get it?  booksnap = book + snap). For example, PicCollage Kids is a safe, kid-friendly photo editor that can be downloaded for $1.99, and Google Draw is another good choice.

Booksnaps are meant to be shared among classmates to facilitate discussion, and students should be aware when creating them that they will be shared. Booksnaps can be shared using many different tools such as Padlet or Seesaw.

In Your Classroom

• Booksnaps can be  a great way to have students reflect on the siddur. Ask each student to create a booknap about the sh’ma, and share them with one another.
• Learning about Purim? Invite students to make a booksnap from a piece of the Megillah.
• You can learn more about techniques for using Booksnaps in the classroom here:
  • Booksnaps in primary grades
  • Tara Martin’s Snapping for Learning

This is a “Technology Tuesday” post via Behrman House, edited by Ann D. Koffsky . You can find more Behrman House Technology Tuesdays here.

February 27, 2018 - Posted by Tktchr | Behrman House Technology Tuesday, Uncategorized | educational technology, Technology