KerPoof! You probably have heard that word during a magic show, but did you know that it is also an awesome web site that teachers and students can use to create movies, drawings, pictures, stories, spell a picture, and more. This web site can be used solely by teachers and/or students for personal use or can be used together with teachers and students for educational use.
A clever concept with this web site is that it can be used with a username and password that can be created for free, or it can be used within a limited, but still quite functional capacity, without a username and password. The username and password can be created in a couple of different ways. A teacher can create a personal username and password for themselves and then they can create generic usernames and passwords for each student in their class to have and use at school and/or at home. Another way is for students to create their own username and password, with their parent’s consent, on their own time for school and/or personal use. The benefit of students having a username and password created through either capacity, will allow them to be able to save their creations and allow them to be able to earn Kerpoof coins to unlock different tools used throughout the different activities.
If having your students not create a username and password is your choice, which is what I have done so far since the students come into my class as a related arts class for 30 minutes, the students will not be able to save their work and they cannot earn Kerpoof coins to unlock different tools. This would mean that they would need to print or take a screen shot (digitally saved picture) of their finished creation before they logged out of the computer for the class period.
Either way the students and yourself as a teacher are using an awesome web site for FREE that can allow graphical posters to be created (Famous Person poster), written stories to be published (Rough draft turned into an awesome picture story), spelling to be used to create a picture (kids type out words then select the correct picture), and so much more. There are so many ways this web site can be used throughout the school day that the ways are limitless.
Check out the pictures below of students taking their time to create seascape pictures for Art class in relationship to perspectives and how pictures farther away should be higher on the picture and smaller and how pictures closer should be lower on the picture and bigger.
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