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| Yet another prime example of my stunning ability to co-opt other people's art and pictures and pretend I'm a really good artist. The cupcakes (minus the warren grass) were traced from a simple picture of 'muffins with no frosting,' while Haystack was taken and modified from deviantart.com. |
From iTunes App store: Hello Cupcake!. Become a leader of All the Pretty Cupcakes. Collaboration, and an edible assessment which brings the elements of story to the class with the result being a room full of students eating characters, masticating conflict, chewing on plot twists, and the creators of the cupcakes blending all of these elements together into one big plate of culinary timelines and handheld chocolate covered similes.
A big batch of mixed metaphors for all. It's a stretch on the "game" category, but anything can be made fun, challenging, and border on bribery.
No. Seriously. The cupcake app has all sorts of templates and such to use, but if students could decorate cupcakes as artifacts to their books, or even create themes, settings, characters; the possibilities are endless. Plus, if you limit the per-student cupcake count to say, 10 or 12, in a class of 27 students, you'd get 270 cupcakes—enough for a complete and utter sugar coma!
The picture above depicts cupcakes as the rabbit warren, and while I only included Haystack to represent the rabbits, you could include as many as you like, or just the protagonists, or the lesser rabbits, etc. The challenge, especially if you limited the cupcake count, would be how close to the novel's theme, setting, characters or whatever a student could get through cupcake depiction.
No. Seriously. The cupcake app has all sorts of templates and such to use, but if students could decorate cupcakes as artifacts to their books, or even create themes, settings, characters; the possibilities are endless. Plus, if you limit the per-student cupcake count to say, 10 or 12, in a class of 27 students, you'd get 270 cupcakes—enough for a complete and utter sugar coma!
The picture above depicts cupcakes as the rabbit warren, and while I only included Haystack to represent the rabbits, you could include as many as you like, or just the protagonists, or the lesser rabbits, etc. The challenge, especially if you limited the cupcake count, would be how close to the novel's theme, setting, characters or whatever a student could get through cupcake depiction.

Hi Jesse,
ReplyDeleteI am impressed with your ability to transform any app, game, or technology tool into a learning opportunity. Great blog post :)