Smore

Are you ready for smore? No, I am not talking about the yummy campfire treat made of chocolate and melted marshmallow, sandwiched between two graham crackers (though I am now in the mood for them). I am talking about the website www.smore.com. This website promises to help users create aesthetically pleasing flyers in a short amount of time. I created the flyer below in 10 minutes but could have been much less if I had all my pictures together first.

 

Currently, the site is in beta so that means new backgrounds, fonts, and colors will available in the near future. ♥

The user has the ability to post this flyer in a variety of ways including: facebook, pintrest, twitter, and craigslist. You can use a link like this one https://smore.com/8q7r  or email it to others. And of course you can embed it like I have done above.

What is neat about this website is that you can add different types of media. You don't have to use just pictures, you can add video too! You can easily add more layouts or delete layouts that you don't want.

So how can this resource be used in the education world... Besides making flyers for events such as open house, awards night, or fundraisers, you can also use it in content areas. For instance, history teachers could have students write a RAFT advertising for the Freedom March, a math teacher could have students create a store that sells parts of geometric figures (example: with a circle it has a circumference, diameter, radius, area), a school counselor could have students do a flyer about their strengths, reading teachers might have students do a flyer about a book that they read.

Do you have any ideas on how you could use this resource in the classroom?