Who Says You Can't be Creative Using an iPad

I created the front page newspaper article below using the Lifecards iOS app. When working with technology I prefer to use my laptop.  In order to truly experience technology through the lens of a student, I decided to try an activity using an app available only on an iPad.   

The  Lifecards app is very simple to use and I was able to complete the postcard in approximately 45 minutes.  I decided to write about an element because this is an activity I could assign my chemistry students.  Each student could select an element and provide information about its discovery, symbol mass, etc.

Using the  Lifecards and Seesaw apps an assignment typically given to chemistry students is modified and redefined through technology.   The assignment task has been modified since students will have a digital record of the element they studied and can create additional element postcards adding further information throughout the study of chemistry (such as electron configuration, oxidation numbers, ionization energy, etc.)  By the end of the chemistry course, each student could have a permanent digitized index of the chemical and physical properties of all 118 elements created by themselves and their classmates. The assignment task is also redefined if the postcards are placed in a digital portfolio using the Seesaw app (please see my Seesaw blog dated 3/8) and shared among the classes and globally through the Seesaw blog allowing the students' work to be published to an authentic audience.