Friday, April 23, 2010
Photo montage
This is how you can create a photo montage from KooBits:
Step 1: Create a new project in KooBits
Step 2: Choose a new template that fits your theme, from wedding theme to vacation to baby theme.
Step 3: Upload your images from your photo album to the KooBits software.
Step 4: Simply drag and drop the images from the left panel onto the template and viola! a new Photo Montage.
The cool thing about using KooBits to create photo montage is that it is so easy to create one after another.
If you have not used KooBits and want to create a Photo Montage, I encourage you to try it. It is easy and fun to do it!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Fun in CHIJ Katong Primary School
KooBits, an e-book authoring tool developed to host a range of multimedia tools helps users to churn out interesting and dynamic content. For teachers, KooBits acts as an agent to churn out with teaching materials where students can participate during lessons. As a result, students are more focused during lessons. For students, KooBits drives them to explore beyond their classrooms. They can tap on over 6,000 resources that come with the programme. So far, the students here have easily created digital books for the all the subjects in the curriculum.
A upper primary student at the school commented that this e-book authoring tool helped him to comprehend complex topics. The drop down box options available gets students to participate during lessons. He also felt that the software was simple and this helped him better express his creativity.
CHIJ Katong Primary School recently built a library to archive the works done by students and teachers. This provides a chance for people to share the digital books and encourages cooperation among the users.
Changkat Changi Secondary School learns with KooBits
KooBits, an e-book technology developed to host a range of multimedia tools helps users to produce interesting and dynamic content. For teachers, KooBits acts as an agent to produce with teaching materials where students can participate during lessons. As a result, students are more engaged during lessons. For students, KooBits encourages them to go beyond their classrooms. They can tap on over 6,000 resources that come with the programme. So far, the students here have smoothly written digital books for the all the subjects in the curriculum.
A upper primary student at the school commented that this e-book technology helped him to understand tough topics. The drop down box options available gets students to participate during lessons. He also felt that the software was easy to use and this helped him better express his creativity.
Casuarina Primary School Students use KooBits
KooBits, an e-book programme developed to host a range of multimedia tools helps users to come up with interesting and dynamic content. For teachers, KooBits acts as an agent to churn out with teaching materials where students can participate during lessons. As a result, students are more focused during lessons. For students, KooBits encourages them to look beyond their classrooms. They can tap on over 6,000 resources that come with the programme. So far, the students here have smoothly created digital books for the all the subjects in the curriculum.
A lower primary student at the school commented that this e-book technology helped him to understand tough topics. The multiple-choice choices available gets students to participate during lessons. He also felt that the software was simple and this helped him better express his creativity.
Wide Range of Resources helps Teachers at Canossa Convent Primary School
Tapping on the wide range of resources that KooBits offers, teachers of Canossa Convent Primary School are now able to present more interesting and interactive lessons. In the past, teachers had to trawl through the internet to gather relevant resources. However, with KooBits, it offers an extensive range of resources that covers many categories. These categories include people, background and nature that can be used in many subjects.
Not only do teachers benefit from the wide range of resources available, students also felt that they came in handy when they were doing their projects. On top of that, KooBits’s ability to act as a multimedia platform helped students to fully express their creativity. They were no longer confined to including resources from a single source. Among the multimedia tools they could use was voice recording. Students could pre-record their stories and match it against their e-book. This promotes cooperation among students which is one of the goals of the InfoCommunication and technology (ICT) department in Canossa Convent Primary School.
The convent school, located in Salim Road hopes to integrate KooBits into more of the subjects taught. Besides helping teachers in textbook based subjects like Mathematics, science and Mother Tongue, the school also hopes to diversify the use of this e-book technology in other subjects. This includes music and arts and craft. Using this software, students will be able to fully express their creativity with the huge number of possibilities.
For now, teachers of Canossa Convent are pleased with how user friendly this e-book software is.
Ebook Software Maximises Creativity of Students at Bukit Panjang Primary School
At Bukit Panjang Primary School (BPPS), students are encouraged to appreciate aesthetics in art and music using technology. With the help of KooBits, the school has successfully been able to achieve this aim.
What KooBits enables students to do is put together several multimedia tools to create their very own digital e-book. Students find this particularly useful as they are able to explore many mediums to present their work. They are also able to display their individual style and pushed to think from different angles. Teachers also recommend this e-book software as a teaching tool to give a more broad based perspective on each subject. They also noticed a hike in students’ interest when they taught their lessons using this media.
Whilst other softwares might be focused on certain subjects, KooBits can be used on all subjects in school. For example, students using this software can come up with scrapbooks and collages. Therefore, students can use this software to come up with scrapbooks after an educational trip. The myriad of resources available in the programme is particularly useful for students to come up with creative content.
The multi uses of KooBits has pushed Bukit Panjang Primary School to explore even more uses for this software. The school hopes to anchor a greater presence of this programme in their curriculum.
Ai Tong School Students have fun with e-book software
With KooBits, students are able to create to combine an array of multimedia technology into one book. This means that a combination of flash, video, audio and visual can be presented on one book to provide an all dimensional learning experience. For instance, students in P6 have utilised the software in their Social Studies presentations to explain the history of Singapore. Together with Youtube videos and voice recordings, the result was an engaging walk of Singapore, from past to present.
Teachers in the Ai Tong School have also found the e-book software useful in creating lesson packages to suit the different abilities of students. With the wide range of resources available in this programme, they commented that it helps them in customizing their lesson plans to cater to the different learning pace of each class. The online platform also helped them in the collaboration and sharing of resources which enabled them to explore more angles.
Students have also brought KooBits beyond the classroom with their participation in various competitions and events. Teachers and parents were educated on National Education concepts on Total Defence Day by students using the e-book reader.
This popular school located at 100 Bright Hill Street has seen an increase in engagement of students.