For this week's assignment, I explored the class tool, LetterPOP. Teachers can create collages or newsletters to send home to parents. Students can create posters and collages for projects. It is easy to sign up, choose a template and type your text. However, when you add an image, it is important to do any resizing before you put it into LetterPOP. You cannot adjust the size once you have uploaded the image. I found this to be frustrating for the images I was trying to use. Once all of the information is published, you can share it with friends or even the public. However, I was unable to publish mine at first. It kept saying I needed to upgrade my account. Then when I tried to go back and find my saved newsletter, it was not there! I recreated the document twice before I contacted the customer support. And I was told that I should not be having trouble and to double check my login information. Although my login information was not the problem, when I signed in a day later, I was able to publish the newsletter. I think the newsletter came out well and can be used effectively in the classroom, but is it worth the trouble? There are other sites out there that create similar designs and I think it is worth looking into before using LetterPOP.
Check out my newsletter here: http://letterpop.com/newsletters/?id=209387-fe11da
Wow that looks great. I will definitely have to try that out. I used glogster and it was pretty cool.
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