Recently my students have been learning about overt and implied messages in advertisements. We spent several weeks looking at media texts, considering the audience and analyzing the strategies used to appeal to those audiences. As a summative task students were asked to select an audience and create a cereal box that would appeal to their consumer. Students used Pic Collage to create their advertisement, partly because Comic Life is $4.99 at the App Store and Pic Collage is free. Students were then able to share their advertisements with me and classmates via Google Drive. Two students who are particularly reluctant to begin and complete a task were very engaged in creating their advertisement and demonstrated their understanding of overt and implied messaging by including an example of each in their own cereal box advertisement. I liked the app because it was very user-friendly and the students were able to use it intuitively, without any pre-teaching. I had a bit of a struggle sharing via Google Drive, until I asked the students how to do it. :)
Jenna, Grade 5
Jett, Grade 6
Hunter, Grade 5
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