Here are some classroom ideas for autocollage

1. Classroom ideas
for Autocollage
by Fiona Beal
fionabeal@gmail.com

3. Select a folder of photos, push a button and watch as your
Autocollage images get swirled into a collage.

4. To put a picture on your blog or classroom door that
incorporates everyone

5. History lesson: The last eight kings and queens of
Great Britain

6. A header for a blog or website
Thanks to Bart Verswijvel

7. A way of remembering everyone’s names
or displaying their work

8. Pictures from a project or outing can be collated as Lisa Gair‟s
students at the Rock Academy did for their “Adopt-a-Donkey”
project.

9. Primary school learners made collages of symmetrical
pictures as a maths assignment.

10. Learners from Grade 2 at St John‟s College in Joburg selected
themes related to what makes South Africa great from an 8-
year old‟s perspective. This learner chose “Sunsets”.

11. This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
These learners from Berea West Primary in Durban made an
Autocollage of polygons and then wrote a song about the properties
of these shapes and sang it using Songsmith. I‟ll show this when I
get to „Songsmith‟.

12. This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
One of the attendees of the Partners in Learning Institute, Bart
Verswijvel from Belgium, used AutoCollage to make a game
(combined with Powerpoint).

13. This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
A stimulus for writing about moods and feelings. „What are they
feeling?‟ „What are they thinking?‟

14. This teacher used Worldwide
Telescope to find images of the
solar system; he wrote a song
about space; and he made his
own movie using Movie Maker.
Use it is a background for a PowerPoint presentation.

15. Some other ideas that
could work well
• Make a card from the class for some occasion
• Creative writing exercises – ‘How does this make
you feel?’ ‘Moods and feelings’
• Book cover for a planning book
• Create a vocabulary exercise using PowerPoint
and store it on a blog
• A collage of a novel’s characters
• Put this on to a talking photo on a blog
• A record of a lesson with everyone showing their product

16. What ideas do you have?