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Digital Cameras in Education
Our focus with this site is to provide information on the portable handheld digital still camera and how it can be used to assist in the educational process.
Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
Top 10 Tips for Taking Great Pictures, Top 10 tips for great pictures
Kid-friendly camera designed at Columbia makes worldwide debut
It teaches science, engineering, photography, and Web sharing, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
New Life.com Photo Archive Brings History to Your Classroom | Edutopia
Once America's leading photo-centric news magazine, Life chronicled the nation and the world for seven decades before issuing its last print publication in 2007. Life's last editor, Bill Shapiro, who heads up the new project, wants students, teachers, and parents to use the site to make history more tangible. "The most iconic moments in American history -- we have those," Shapiro reports. "We didn't want simply to create a historical repository or a dusty archive. We wanted these events to feel as alive as they did when they happened."
Online Photography Archives Enable Teaching with Primary Sources | Edutopia
A photograph is far more than a pretty picture. It's also a visual document, an object that scholars call a primary source because it captures an unfiltered, unique moment from a distant time or place.
KODAK: Education - Elementary
Various lesson plans involving photography in K-5 classrooms.
Adobe - Digital School Collection teacher resources
"Technology integration is a key mechanism for augmenting classroom instruction while teaching students essential digital communication skills that will help them become lifelong learners in the digital age. Use these lesson plans to structure projects using the Adobe® Digital School Collection when teaching about math and science, language arts, history/social studies, and visual and performing arts."
YouTube - Digital Photography in the Hands of Our Students
A video designed to introduce teachers to the idea of allowing their students to use digital cameras in the classroom to demonstrate knowledge, explore content, and create products. We must stop hogging the technology and let our students show us how they view the world
1001 Uses for a Digital Camera
"This site is designed as a reference tool putting educators in touch with creative educational applications for digital cameras in educational settings. Submitted lessons and applications that have been used successfully in the classroom will be displaye d for other educators to view and print. "
Multimedia Guides - Plano ISD - Plano, Texas
This page provides resources related to using a digital camera.
Digital Glyphs: Imaging Ideas in a Visual World
"Visual literacy is the ability to understand and use images. This includes to think, learn, and express oneself in terms of images. In the 1960s, IVLA (International Visual Literacy Association) was formed to help people learn more about visual learning, visual thinking, and visual language."
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- The Visual Literacy
Challenge
- Just as we learn how to read text, we need to
learn how to read pictures. Students need skills and
strategies for reading, interpreting, using, applying,
designing, composing, and creating visuals from line
drawings to color photographs. - The Visual Literacy
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Reading Visuals. When
you read a visual, you need to look for
clues in the parts and whole of the
picture. You try to identify the subject,
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Reading Online
A case study exploration reveals that young children of different ability levels have unique occasions for literacy learning when a Language Experience Approach is enhanced with digital photography and creativity software. A framework for a Digital Language Experience Approach and implications for classroom practice are included.
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Photography in general, and digital photography in particular, also may have an important role to play in facilitating children’s literacy experiences. Photographs are present in many school displays (Labbo, Montero, & Eakle, 2001, online document) -- for example, in the form of images of a teacher or student of the week, snapshots of class speakers, images downloaded from the Internet for a report, or class photo essays of field trips. Photography has also been successfully used as an enhancement to the curriculum and to promote effective home-school connections (Allen et al., in press). Nash (1982) reminds us that the Polaroid Education Project provided teachers with opportunities to better understand the world views of their students. Other work suggests that middle school students’ writing improves when photographs are included as an integral component of essays (Sinatra, Beadry, Stahl-Gemake, & Guastello, 1990).
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What Is the Digital Language Experience Approach?
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Postcards From America 50 State Travel Adventure
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Add Sticky NoteIf you teach U.S. geography, or if you're an armchair traveler who wants to explore America without leaving your seat cushion--you've come to the right place.
- Seems like a great resource for inspiring the creation of custom postcards for hometown landmarks. - on 2009-12-02
Education World ® Technology Center: Smile! Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day
Teachers across the country and around the world are discovering the many valuable uses for digital cameras; uses that both engage students and make their own professional lives easier. So, what are you waiting for?
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"The main issue teachers need to be aware of when using digital cameras with students is the risk of damage to the camera," Miller pointed out. "Digital cameras are still relatively expensive, so students must be taught proper handling and safety rules when using the camera. I do one-on-one training sessions with students to ensure that they understand how to handle the camera. Then, when students 'pass' the required training and demonstrate knowledge of the careful handling rules, I take their picture and issue an 'Official Photographer' pass with the student's picture on the front and the rules on the back. Whenever a student is to use the camera, he or she must show the pass (just like a photographer for a newspaper or other press)."
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"The second most important issue to remember is ensuring that students take appropriate
photographs," Miller added. "The ease of using a digital camera allows students to snap many nonsense pictures. Plan on spending some time going over basic photography rules with students and explaining how to frame or set up a picture before it's taken. Some casual snapshots are okay and encouraged, but they need to be aware that some are inappropriate and to be able to judge for themselves what they should or should not photograph. You should also teach students to be choosy about the pictures they choose to print. Although paper and ink are less expensive than the cost of buying film and developing regular pictures, students still can't be wasteful." - 2 more annotations...
Pics4Learning - Tech4Learning
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Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection.
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