Microsoft Image Composer

Here is the link to the video for this observation: http://www.intime.uni.edu/video/045vahs/8/

In this video students are working with Microsoft Image Composer to create collages for different aspects of their school.

One of the strengths of this lesson is that the teacher models the activity for the students by demonstrating both past work and manipulates pictures for the class to observe in real-time. Another strength of this lesson is that students are interacting with their school community by creating collages of their fellow students.

This lesson is quite strong and it is difficult to determine what its weaknesses are. One thing that would make this lesson better is if there was a camera available for every student. If every student had a camera available to them each student could create a collage from their own pictures.