Tuesday, April 17, 2012

AutoCollage is a must for teachers and students

(This is a cross-post of a post I wrote for the SchoolNet blog)
Nowadays there are so many different things you can do with your photographs. Microsoft AutoCollage is a programme that allows you and your students to get creative with your images and combine them into a single collage. Best, of course, is that it is free. Microsoft Research has really tried to make this programme as simple as possible to use. Basically, you point it to a folder of photos in your My Pictures section and it knits them together to produce an eye catching collage.

If you would like to see examples, Microsoft Research has a whole folder of AutoCollage photos in Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/autocollage/

Below is a tutorial video that I found in the UK Partners of Learning YouTube channel. You can see that the opening image is a collage of a number of photos. I think this teacher explains very clearly how to get started with AutoCollage...hope you find it useful.



How to use Autollage

Here are some step by step instructions on how to use AutoCollage.

Classroom uses for Autocollage

Here are some starting points for classroom ideas for using AutoCollage. Please add some thoughts that you have about ways of using this programme in your classroom.


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