App of the Week: Phoster
Price: $1.99
Phoster is a poster-making app that is so awesomely versatile, it's almost too cool for school. If you've ever opened up the iOS version of Pages and found yourself wishing for more of the poster templates you're used to on the Macbook version, then Phoster is the perfect app to help fill in the gap. Phoster allows users to create aesthetically pleasing posters out of the photos on your iPad's camera roll. Students can choose from a number of different poster templates, then combines their favorite images with text and various filters to create truly unique posters. This app could be easily integrated in any subject area or grade level. Here are a few ideas:
Phoster is a poster-making app that is so awesomely versatile, it's almost too cool for school. If you've ever opened up the iOS version of Pages and found yourself wishing for more of the poster templates you're used to on the Macbook version, then Phoster is the perfect app to help fill in the gap. Phoster allows users to create aesthetically pleasing posters out of the photos on your iPad's camera roll. Students can choose from a number of different poster templates, then combines their favorite images with text and various filters to create truly unique posters. This app could be easily integrated in any subject area or grade level. Here are a few ideas:
- Have students jigsaw informational text, then create a poster to summarize the information.
- Build vocabulary by creating posters with definitions, visuals, and examples.
- Use Phoster as a creative option students can choose at the end of a project-based unit. Students can disseminate what they've learned by hanging the posters in public forums at your school site.
- Create propaganda posters to showcase different rhetorical strategies.
- Have students research famous quotes and create inspirational posters.
Check out a student product one of my students created as part of a PBL unit on the caste system of Ancient India (click to enlarge):
If your school site has multiple iOS devices, consider taking advantage of Apple's Volume Purchasing Program. Order twenty or more copies of the app and receive them for 50% off! Phoster is definitely worth the cost, and is arguably a steal at volume purchasing prices.
If you have any questions regarding how to integrate Phoster, please feel free to contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Jessica Pack
If you have any questions regarding how to integrate Phoster, please feel free to contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Jessica Pack