Autocollage



__**AutoCollage**__ Using AutoCollage we tapped into visual-spatial intelligence The students learned about the effectiveness of photography and its power of storytelling. The students viewed images and were asked to creatively come up with a story to fit the representation and to explain their point of view. Once complete the students were asked to find images that would create a powerful collage of the ongoing issues of poverty and complete an AutoCollage that would exemplify their thinking.

The students have also explored the reasons or causes of homelessness. Together, students produced a list of reasons and possible solutions for the issues surround homelessness. The list of reasons were poverty, lack of community support, high cost of housing, domestic violence, unequal access to health care, drug abuse, lack of education, mental illness, inequality of pay, and women’s rights (in some world countries).

These collages will continue to be posted on the wiki, and once again others from around the world will be asked to contribute. The power of digital story telling through AutoCollage will break through language barriers. The variety of collages that will be generated will increase students’ understanding that although poverty may look different, depending on where you live, it is a global issue.

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