Apps Mashing with Google Photos

'Apps Mashing' or 'App Smashing' are two slightly banal terms that are nevertheless popular in the blogosphere; they describe the powerful practice of combining several apps in a sequence that ultimately results in a final artefact that is better than anything the kids would have done if they'd tried to stick with just one app.

Google Photos Collage

Here's a great example from Leah's and Rob's classes in grade 3; apps mashed:

1. Camera: Captured the images, these could be captured by one person, or contributed to a shared album
2. Shared Google Photo Album, kids review the images and download the ones they want to keep
3. Add them to their own Google Photos account,
4. Use the 'Assistant' to select the favourites and turn them into a collage
5. Download the collage
6. Upload the collage to Seesaw, and add their reflection as an audio comment.