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Digital Images in the Classroom

BubbleShare: Share photos - Craft Ideas

Learn how to edit digital images and incorporate them into your classroom instruction.  Two strands will be offered: 

1. Using desktop software for the PC to edit and present photos

2. Using free online photo-editing, posting, and presentation resources

  

Topics to be covered include:

  • Using digital images across the curriculum
  • Digital image resources
  • Resizing and cropping images
  • Working with multiple layers
  • Digital image types

Download Course Flyer (.pdf) 

 

Digital Images & Media

I.       Classroom Application and Student Project Ideas

A.    Writing Prompts

         1.  The Week in Pictures from MSNBC

         2.  Crazy images at eclectech

    B.    Visual Reinforcement

C.    Student Self-Expression

D.    Parent Communication

          1. Personal News Network (can upload cell phone pictures) example

E.    Creative Writing

1.    Comic Creation (Review)

a.    Comic Life (Macintosh)

b.    MakeBeliefsComics - simple, 3 panel, great for elementary with lesson plans

c.    ComicCreator - from ReadWriteThink - 1,2 ,3 & 6 Panel

d.    Add Comic Balloons to Flickr Photos

e.    Toondoo *Check Content

2.    Photography as Creative Writing & Expression

       a. Example Lesson

       b. All About Me: Use Photos to Write Stories

II.     Online Photo Sources (Creative Commons)

A.    Creative Commons  - search quickly at Behold.cc (separate link)

B.    Pics4Learning

C.    Flickr - Yahoo Account Needed

D.    Image After

E.    Morgue Files

F.     Teachers Domain - Videos, Images...

G.  More Resources Aggregated by Intel Teach (resources like these available when you participate in an Intel Teach Class (Intel Essentials or Intel Teaching with Technology)

III.    Posting Online

A.    Flickr (Yahoo Account)

B.    Picassa (Google Account) - can upload straight from iPhoto

C.    PhotoBucket, FaceBook, MySpace, myphotoalbum.com, etc.

IV.    Photo Editing

A.    Picnik - bring pics in from Flickr, Picasa, etc. to edit

B.    Dosize - Resize Photos for Emailing Online

C.    Pixenate -edit and add fun effects to photos and easily re-upload them to Flickr

D.    LunaPic - add animation, effects, text, etc to any photo--very fun

V.     Photo Shows & Formatting

A.    Scrapbooking & Photo Albums

1.    Bookr - Photobooks with Flickr Images

2.    Scrapblog - multimedia scrapbooks

B.    Posters & More

1.    bighugelabs.com (Flickr app)

2.    BeFunky - photo manipulation & comics

3.    Glogster - make posters and collages

4.    MagMyPic - make magazine covers

5.    Sign Maker - t-shirts, streetsigns, tropies, & so much more More Generators

6.    Post Card Creator

7.    Block Posters  - Free web app that lets you turn any image into a wall poster.

C.    Photo Shows

1.    Moblying - Slide Shows to embed & send to mobile devices

2.    Animoto - MTV-style Photo Shows

3.    PhotoShow

4.    Picsviewr - 7 different photo shows for pictures from Flickr

D.    Timelines With Photos

1.    CircaVie - Timeline with Pictures

2.    Dippity - photos, videos, and maps on a timeline

E.    Embedding in Maps

1.    CommunityWalk - draw a path and post photos

2.    Google My Maps - need gmail account

a.    Narrated Slide Show (online)

(1)    VoiceThread

(2)    Show Beyond

VI.    Movies

A.    Online Applications

1.    Dvolver - movie maker

2.    National Geographic Animal Movie Maker -for kids

B.    Editing

1.    Desktop Programs

a.    PhotoStory3

b.    iMovie & iPhoto

c.    Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft

Ideas for Using Digital Images

  • "What's my Story?" - use the "Babymaker" and combine two pictures, have students write the narrative or biography of that creation
  • In my shoes - use converse shoe design online & write about it
  • Capture an idiom, rich description, a sentence using new vocabulary in a photo
  • Arranging random picture in order to create a story and use the photo to bring out rich descriptive words
  • Take pictures of concepts like equal fractions, line segments and make a class book with iPhoto books
  • Great Ideas at the Apple Learning Interchange http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/search.php?text=digital+images
  • present new vocabulary using individual objects or by miming actions
  • to practice dialogue work such as buying different items in a shop or asking for directions
  • to give a description of your daily routine or local area for example
  • to design a comic strip
  • to make a record of a trip
  • to put together a multimedia resource for your partner school
  • Ideas Adapted From Mark Nichols of IDEAL & Alt I PEAK Photography Presentation - Poetry – display an image. Students brainstorm descriptive words for the photo as a class then in pairs or independently put the words together in the form of a poem. Students then go take a picture of something rich in descriptive possibilities and create a poem about that image. - Creative writing – take a series of pictures and have the students rearrange them in whatever order they think would best make a story. Students then write a story about the pictures and use the images to generate a lot of detail. β€œThe wrinkley and sun-blasted old man.” See attached

    - Understanding double meanings and famous quotes. Match the quotation with the picture or write a noble quotation about the picture. Go out and take pictures that match a descriptive paragraph, sentence or quotation.

    - To get the creative juices flowing. Write a caption for silly pictures. Create their own. See attached.

    - Persuasive Writing -Make a collage picture like the Enquirer one attached and write a persuasive essay explaining it.

    - Book Reports & understanding parts of a story http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=13864

Applications on the Web

 

Common Digital Image Types

     JPEG - used for scanned images or photographs.

     GIF - illustrations or drawings with uniform colors throughout.

     TIFF - commonly used in scientific applications because images are not compressed.

     BMP - bit-mapped image usually associated with Window's Paint program.

     Windows Metafile - mixed media format found in Window's applications, especially Microsoft Word.

     MPEG - format for audio and video

     AVI - a multimedia format found mostly on Windows

     Quicktime - a multimedia framework from Apple capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and several types of interactive panoramic images.

 

Summary created by Intel Education

 

Physical Size Pixel Dimension (width x height)
Small to Medium 300 x ???
Medium to Large 400 x ???
Large 640 x 480
Very Large 800 x 600
Extremely Large 1200 x 900

Resolution - Resolution refers to the pixels per inch required for good reproduction. Most output devices such as printers are geared in dots per inch (dpi). Computer screens and programs are oriented to pixels per inch (ppi). Generally, the higher the resolution (the more dots per inch), the finer the detail and the larger the file size.

Thumbnail - Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them. Often, thumbnail images link to the full-size image. Typical sizes of thumbnails:

Thumbnail Size Pixel Dimension (width x height)
very small 48x48
small 64x64
medium 96x96
large 128x128

 

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