AutoCollage
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Inspire your students' creativity and help them better remember information by using AutoCollage to encourage both visual and verbal learning. With AutoCollage, you can engage your students in a fun and creative way by quickly creating a collage of images. Use it to focus on selected subjects, showcase school events, and much more.
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Create a collage quickly and easily
AutoCollage uses face and object recognition to swiftly create a collage of several images. You choose the collage that delights you and best displays the relevant content. With three easy clicks, you open, select, and save your image files, then AutoCollage does the rest by presenting your images in a perfect collage.
Use AutoCollage to inject fun and creativity into any learning situation:
- Increase class participation on a visually stimulating topic
- Design teaching content to focus attention
- Create compelling visual stories on complex subjects
- Review learnings and prepare for reviews in a creative, new way
- Create class memories of special activities or field trips
System requirements:
- Processor: 233 Mhz or faster. 1 Ghz or faster recommended.
- Memory: 128 Mb. 512 MB recommended.
- Display: 800 x 600 resolution. 1024 x 768 resolution with 32 bit color recommended.
- Operating System: Windows XP (SP3) or later. Windows Vista recommended.
- Hard Disk Space: 5 MB recommended.
Resources
AutoCollage home page
Official AutoCollage home page from Microsoft.
AutoCollage on Flickr
Official AutoCollage community on Flickr, with hundreds of sample collages. The public is invited to join and share their collages with others.
Summarize your adventures with a click
Microsoft Research news article about AutoCollage.
Building a class community with AutoCollage, Word, and Photsynth
Format: Word
Size: 1.9 MB
This tutorial will help you set up introduction activities to enable you to understand your students and to build a positive community in your classroom.
Using StickySorter AutoCollage and Songsmith for different learning styles
Format: Word
Size: 334.4 KB
This tutorial is designed for educators who want to use technology in their teaching to address learners with different learning styles.