Digital Cameras and Web Images for Teaching and Learning
Activity: Why use digital cameras and images in the classroom?
"Adding visuals to verbal (text and/or auditory) learning can result in significant gains in basic and higher-order learning." from Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says.
Brain Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things.
Brain Rule # 9: Stimulate more of the senses at the same time.
Brain Rule # 10: Vision trumps all other senses.
from Brain Rules by John Medina
Activity: Downloading Images from the Web
1. Create a folder on your desktop called images.
2. Download images from the Web that you could use to scaffold the content that you teach. Try some of these photo sites. Try to download only copyright friendly images.
3. Save your photos to your images folder on your desktop.
To download a file (including images, audio or video), right-click on the file's name or icon and choose "Download linked file as..." , "Save link as..." or "Save Target As..." If your mouse does not have right-click button, hold down the ctrl key while clicking on the file's name or icon then choose "Download linked file as..." , "Save link as..." or "Save Target As..."
Activity: Enhancing Images
Use Picnik to add labels to your photos. Once you are done enhancing your photos save them again to your images folder.
Other photo editing sites:
resizr.com
splashup.com
photoshop.com/express
Activity: Taking Photos with Digital Cameras
1. Use the digital camera to take photos that you can use in your classroom.
Examples: Take photos that visually represent vocabulary terms that you teach.
2. Upload the photos to Picnik and enhance them with a label.
3. Once you are done enhancing your photos, save your photos to the photos folder on your desktop.
Activity: Photo Sharing Sites
Photo sharing sites are great for organizing and sharing your digital pictures. Watch this video to learn more about photo sharing sites.
Example of teacher sharing photos with his students for a class project: Our Texas Project.
Sharing Your Photos to Flickr
Open an account with Flickr.com and upload the photos that you enhanced and the photos that you took this morning.
Flickr Tutorial
Other photo sharing sites:
picasa.com
bubbleshare.com
Activity: Create with Photos
Explore some of the sites below to create images for your class:
scrapblog.com
voicethread.com
glassgiant.com
slidestory.com
bighugelabs.com
slideshare.com
animoto.com
magtoo.com
Activity: Making Videos with Digital Cameras
1. In pairs, use the digital camera to create a one-take video that describes what photo tool or tools you'll be using with your students next year and how you plan on using it.
2. Save your video on your desktop to post on the class wiki.
Roster:
Colleen Brosko Helen Brough Mamta Ganesan Beth Gavin Berta Greenberg Alexandra Jimenez Leigh Lunsford John Reese Jill Robillard Maureen Slocum David Suehs Terry Waddell Dawne Young
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