Technology Lends a New Twist to Annual Homecoming Walk

This year’s walk around the lake took on a slightly new “look”, with our 3^rd graders toting along classroom iPads for a slightly different outdoor experience than that of previous years. The idea was to present an opportunity for technology to transcend learning by encouraging students to document their own personal thoughts and activities while actually on the walk itself. Once back in the classroom, those recordings, in combination with the creative writing process. where used to construct individual paragraphs. Those paragraphs—a creative means by which each student expressed their own thoughts and experiences—were then shared with the world via an app called Photocard, which transformed their written work into a postcard that was shared with teachers, school administrators, and parents alike!