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Introduction
Never before has the classroom become so much a part of the world around us. Small digital cameras have affected how we look at war, love, family and friends, poverty, wealth, culture, and nature. People record their environment, share this images with each other and the world, and become archivers of their own experience.
:This engaging and highly interactive presentation demonstrates many techniques for using these amazing technologies to capture the world and bring it into your classroom for exploration and interpretation. Learn how students can use digital cameras to learn vocabulary words, explore math concepts, enhance reading comprehension, motivate better writing, express what they have learned in social studies and science, and learn to use information as a raw material, not an end product.
Best Advice
The most important thing to remember about using digital photography in the classroom is that your device is more than just a camera. It is an input device. You are not just taking pictures and printing them. You are capturing visual information about the place and people of your environment, and inputing that information into the computer where powerful things can be done with it.
:Remember the video of the bird, how when imported into the video editing software, we could slow the bird down, making visible, that which was not visible.
Creative Ideas
==Here are the examples that we covered in the presentation==
- Use a digital camera to take pictures of each learning center for making signs.
- Each day take pictures of student activities and select from them for your weekly newsletter.
- When students made a book about what they wanted to be when they grew up, I took pictures of the students, cut out their faces and had them draw their profession around it.
- Use a group shot as the background picture or screen saver on the classroom computers.
- Make a powerpoint/hyper studio presentation for open house using pictures taken in class.
- Use pictures of students (cropped close) for backgrounds of their autobiographical poems.
- As students study geometric shapes, have them take pictures of the shapes they see around them.
- Take a camera on a field trip & take pictures of students enjoying it. Make a collage of the pictures, have students sign it, and send it back as a thank you card.
- Take pictures on field trip, then email them back to school so that another teacher can make a slide show for parents to watch as they are waiting for the bus.
- Take pictures of each child the first day of school. Then use a pocket chart labeling half of it 5, and the other half 6. Then as each child has a birthday, move their picture from the 5 side to the 6.
- Take pictures in the class all year long. At the end of the year, combine them in to a slide show and have music playing under it. Create a CD for each student to take home with them as a classroom scrapbook.
- Have students take pictures of art work, construction, playground scenes, or each other. Then print the picture at the top of a piece of lined paper and ask the student to write a story about the picture.
- Have students write a short book intended for younger students to promote healthy decisions. Photograph students as characters in the story and use as illustrations in the book.
- Organize students into groups of three or four. Give each group a list of items around the school campus that relate to the topic at hand, and then send them out with a digital camera to record as many items as they can find. Then require each group to make a presentation sequencing their pictures to tell a story.
- Ask students to work in teams to story board a four panel cartoon that uses foreign language vocabulary words. Then ask the students to act out the cartoon, photographing their scenes. Finally add the pictures to their cartoon and insert captions in the foreign language.
- Take pictures or video of common places in the community. Then have young students use iMovie or a multimedia program to sequence the pictures or clips in a way that tells a story.
- At the end of the school year, ask students to photograph important parts of the daily routine and make a presentation for next year�s students.
- As students in an upper elementary grade to take pictures of items around campus that are shaped like letters of the alphabet. Then ask them to create an alphabet booklet with the pictures for younger students.
- Ask students to take a close-up picture of something on the school campus. Then ask classmates to guess what and where it is. The photographers must include clues in the picture.
- Scavenger Hunt � Send small groups of students on a hunt for specific things around your school, neighborhood, or city. Instead of bringing back objects, students take pictures. Have students place images in presentation software and sequence to tell a story.
- Students write scripts for a puppet show. They take digital photos of each other and then use Appleworks paint to edit the pictures adding hats, beards, and more hair. Then they cut out the edited drawings, glued them to either popsicle sticks or to paper bages and created puppets. (Maureen Kellogg)
- Student of the week poster
- Seating chart for substitute teacher
- Virtual field trips
- Emotion Flash Cards
- Experiment setup
- Opposites
- Puzzles