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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.
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.
Online Sources for Finding Works in the Public Domain
Online Sources for Finding Works in the Public Domain
These sites are good places to start looking for works in the public domain; however, you should always check copyright notices for the specific work before using it.
The Copyright Site
Myths about Copyright
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Students as Creators: Exploring Copyright
This lesson gives students the tools they need to consider the ethical issues surrounding use and ownership of copyrighted materials. Students encounter information and tools to find works in the public domain, identify and contact copyright holders, cite resources, and protect their own works from copyright infringement. This lesson can be used in conjunction with any student project to address copyright.
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
Digital Directors Guild
Student-created digital movies present teachers and students a chance to explore topics that are personally important while providing opportunities for the writing process, content investigation, collaborative and authentic assessment, as well as 21st Century technology skills.
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The Digital Directors
Guild (http://www.ddguild.org) has
been developed to provide a space in which K-16 educators can explore
digital moviemaking, its place in the curriculum, and its impact on student
learning.
Proofreading Makes Perfect: Grade 2
"Welcome to Proofreading Makes Perfect! Here you'll find an interactive guide to finding and correcting mistakes in grammar, spelling, usage, and punctuation. Practice exercises keep your proofreading skills sharp."
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.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
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The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to about 75% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about 1.2 million digital images in all.
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