Mixing literature with technology

Today was a really fun class. We learned how to mix literature with technology. The first thing we did was we expirimented with Kid Pix for a little while. Kid Pix is very cool and even being an adult, I find it very entertaining. We read the book Spilt Milk by Charles D. Shaw, a book that shows different shapes spilled milk made and how they look like other things, and then used Kid Pix to create our own page of "spilt milk". I was surprised at how easy it was to draw using the computer. After I created my page, a giraffe, I was curious to see what other people drew. It was very neat and I feel like Kid Pix could be used for numerous activities involving literature. Next we read another book, Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins. This book was about a hen who went for a walk and it used a lot of prepositions to decribe where the hen went. We then did something neat to mix technology with this book. In small groups we made our own 'walk' books using a digital camera. We did different things that involved prepositions and then put our pictures with text in a power point. I had fun doing this and I feel like it was not only fun, but got the lesson or idea of prepostions across, a good example of the TPACK method. Last, we were assigned to bring ten random items to class today. In our same small groups we put all our items together and took a picture of them. This created an "I-Spy" picture. The idea was to find two things that rhymed in the picture. We had glue and shoe. I thought this was very creative. As a kid I loved the I-Spy books. I think kids would love getting to make their own. This is just another way of having fun yet learning something, in this case looking for objects that rhyme. Today was a fun class and I really enjoy doing different activities. We are getting a lot of fun ideas of how to incorporate technology into literature.