So, here's how it works! First students go onto the website and upload photos they are going to be using to make their collage. Uploading photos can be done through a number of different ways: Facebook, Drive, Dropbox, Flickr, Instagram, Google Plus, or photos already in storage on Loupe. You can also easily search the web for endless images on the site! This makes getting pictures super easy because Loupe allows you to access pretty much every preexisting account you have. Once you have uploaded everything you would like, the next step is picking your shape of the collage. The photos will automatically be placed in the desired form and is then ready to be downloaded or printed.
This tool could be used to create integrated expressive arts in the classroom in a variety of instructional ways. Collages could be used at the beginning of unit to introduce students to new terms and materials by having them go online, do a scavenger hunt for them, and then create a photo collage in the shape of an object that summarizes the topic. Loupe could be used in the middle of a unit as a type of hands-on informal assessment to see how much the students have comprehended what has been taught so far. Or lastly, it's great to use at the end of a unit as a final project to give students a chance to show what they have learned throughout a several week span. Either way the educator chooses, it gets kids involved, doing hands-on/kinesthetic activities to get their brain engaged verses lecture format. Visualization is the way the majority of students learn and actually comprehend what is being taught because it sticks better in their mind when they have a picture to connect the material with.
Therefore, why wouldn't an educator want to use this tool? It's an engaging, visual comprehension tool that allows students to actual work with the material that is being presented to them. Obviously, I have explained this tool to be super easy to use because it really is! The only complications I could see with this tool is having the younger k-2 students use it. I think it's more generated for a little bit older of a crowd for several reasons: the main way of uploading pictures is down through social media accounts, it does involve searching the web, and there are a countless number of buttons/options to use on the application, which could be harder for a younger student. But, the educator could still use it to print off visualizations for them. Kindergartens love colorful, new things to look at!
So here are some examples of my own art that I have chosen to make with Get Loupe:
Ohio Department of Education Visual Arts Standards
Domain: Perceiving/knowing (Kindergarten)
Sub-Domain: Visual Arts
Strand: Cognitive and Creative Learning Processes
Standard: 5PE Identify and name materials used in visual arts
Ohio's New Learning Standards
Domain: Craft and Structure
Sub-Domain: Reading - Informational
Standard 5: identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
Last but not least, this collage I have made for a potential kindergarten class is filled with different representations of objects freezing or heating
Ohio Department of Education
Domain: Concepts related to Earth's interior
Sub-Domain: Physical Science
Strand: Earth and Space Science (ESS)
Standard: Properties of materials can change due to heating or freezing (PreK-2)
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