While researching technologies suitable for TPACK helpful for elementary students, I stumbled upon Fotobabble. This is a free program that involves two simple steps: upload a photo and record your voice to produce a talking picture. This can be done by a child of any age with a small amount of help.
I believe that this technology can be applied to any content area, specifically English or Language Arts. My students would be able to find pictures they like and, after writing a story to go along with them, record the story over the picture. Writing the stories and speaking them aloud would satisfy multiple Michigan Standards for Language Arts for the elementary grades. I can also scan their personally drawn pictures into the computer to upload onto Fotobabble and have them narrate their own drawing.
This can also be applied to other subject areas, such as spelling (record themselves spelling the words), social studies (a map of a state with their recordings of details about the state), or even math (depictions of simple math problems, and they talk through how they found the answer). These can easily be added to our classroom website for parents to be able to see what their children are doing during class.
I don't feel that there are any constraints to this technology because it appears to be so simple to complete and share. I wanted to find a program that very young students could do with minimal help, and it appears that this is one of them. I want the students to feel independent and proud of their completed product.
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