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Ready-to-Use Scrapbook Pages
By Linda Lindroth
Here are some additional resources that will help you turn your digital pictures into a digital scrapbook.
Digital scrapbooking has become a popular past-time for home and school. Just like paper scrapbooking, e-Scrapbooking can be very time-consuming. It takes time to capture good quality photographs with your digital camera, more time to edit selected images and decide on a theme for your pages. If you are going to create your own digital scrapbook templates for your photos and journaling, the time investment continues to grow.
The reward – a creative set of printable pages that can be published over and over without additional time investment – makes this an exciting project for students.
Here are just a few ready-to-use scrapbook pages in Word or as PDFs that can be printed as time-savers or modified to best meet your classroom project needs. These are only starting points. The possibilities are infinite and only limited by you and your students imaginations. Create!
For the How To template click here. 
PDF 75KB
How To template MS Word file click here 66KB
For e-Scrapbooking 1 click here. PDF 47KB
For e-Scrapbooking 1 MS Word file click here 64KB
For e-Scrapbooking 2 click here. PDF 157KB
For e-Scrapbooking 2 MS Word file click here 32KB
Additional web resources for digital scrapbooking, or e-Scrapbooking:
Computer Scrapbooking
www.scrapbook-bytes.com
Tutorials and sample layouts and digital scrapbook materials.
Billy Bear's Scrapbook Goodies
www.billybear4kids.coml
Links to Photo Frame software for creating more than 80 different frames for your personal scrapbook pages and Scrapbook Goodies including picture sheets, frames, borders, theme sheets and more.
Cottage Arts.Net
www.cottagearts.net
Tutorials for digital scrapbooking using a variety of graphic arts programs.
Filamentality Multimedia Scrapbooks
www.kn.pacbell.com
Create a research project using photos, essays, memorabilia about a social studies or science topic. Use the Scrapbook on China to model this type of class research project.
To read the related article click here.
Linda K. Lindroth is Technology Editor and Web Coordinator for Teaching K-8. She is also a Technology Resource Teacher in a K-5 computer lab in Lexington, KY.
Updated March 2009
March 2006, Vol.36, No.6
