Picpockets: World’s Best Photographs

Picpockets is a gallery of high-quality photographs. Picpockets organizes it content by collection aligned to artist, genre, and title. Each collection allows users to see only the first four images, and users can tap the “i” button to read about the image and the “heart” button to favorite the image, which saves it to the “My Faves” feature, accessible from Picpocket’s main screen. Users can purchase an entire collection of images for $2.99.

Instructional Ideas

1. As a bell-ringer activity, teachers can project an image found in this app and let students journal a response. Sample journal prompts include: (1) What is your immediate response to seeing this image? (2) Study the image for a moment; who do you think the people in the image are? (3) If you could be part of the image, where and how would you place yourself in it? (4) If you could adjust one element of this image, what would it be?
2. Teachers can let students browse the images in this app and choose their top three. Next, teachers can have students take a screen shot of the images and create a presentation that explains why they chose the images. On each slide of the presentation, students will have to include the image and their reason(s) for choosing it.
3. As the basis for a short story, students can choose an image that speaks to them and write a short story in response. Students can take a screen shot of the image and include it somewhere in their story. Students can use the UX Documents, Microsoft Word, or Office Offline apps to write their stories. Students can email their teacher the story for grading.
4. After becoming familiar with the types of images included in this app, teachers can assign students to take their best picture using their iPad. Students will then have to upload the picture to a class website and include the story behind the picture, similar to the stories that can be accessed using the “i” button in this app.
5. Teachers can support students in analyzing and critiquing the images in this app. To do so, teachers can project an image and ask students: (1) What are the best characteristics of this image? (2) What makes this image powerful? (3) How is color used in this image? (4) Does this image convey a message or emotion? (5) What is one way that this image could be improved?

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