Postcard

Review by Daniel Ballinger

Price: $1.99

The Postcard app is user friendly and easy to use.  You can up load images, chose from a liberty of images in the app or draw your own image.  For written text, a person simple types what they want to say and hits return.  I like the typing feature because it is easy to read and allows you the normal features of Microsoft word like changing fonts or text size.

A postcard or a series of postcards is a unique way to develop student understanding of a concept while engaging a student to think critically about the material.  So send a postcard or have a student or children create their own and send it to you.

As a Social Studies teacher I find myself having students engage in a variety of projects and in class activities. The first assignment I had students complete was to create a series of postcards from soldiers on Sherman’s March to the Sea during the Civil War. The idea was that the soldiers would write home about what the experience was like, what they saw and how they felt. This type of activity is something the Postcard app can be used for.