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DIgital Cameras In The Classroom

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TEACH DIFFERENT VIDEO

DIGITAL STUDENTS @ ANALOG SCHOOLS (located in Teacher Tube)

Kids and Digital Media (located in You Tube)

Students today live in a multimedia world and appreciate variety in their learning environment. Some forms of literacy they can develop include textual, numerical, visual, audio and multimedia. Visual Literacy can be defined as the ability to understand and produce visual messages. Both teachers and students can benefit by developing their abilities to create, use and evaluate visual resources.

http://www.zardec.net.au/keith/visual.htm

Activity One:

Figure out how to take pictures with your camera and download them!

Take a one serious picture of yourself and one "silly" picture of yourself.

Download your picture to your computer and insert it into POWERPOINT or WORD to make a NAME TENT

with both of your pictures on the name tent.

You can use Microsoft Photo Editor to crop your picture.

Why use digital cameras in the classroom?

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/images-in-education.htm

Sample TA TEKS:

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter126/ch126a.html#126.3

Activity Two:

Jigsaw in groups - Each group will take one or two of the following websites/articles, read through and discuss,

and as a group will present the best ideas gathered from the information.

Uses of digital cameras:

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/

What can you do with 15 seconds of video?

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/15_seconds.htm

Dozens of Acitvities for Using a Digital Camera in Your Classroom:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech147.shtml

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech148.shtml

Great Hotlists of Sites for Digital Cameras:

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/digitalcameras.htm

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html

Lelia's Links

Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom

1001 Uses for a Digital Camera

Learning to Use the Digital Camera

Our Favorite Workshop Ideas On Using Cameras in Projects:

Top 10 List-Digital Camera.doc

What you can do with 15 seconds of video.doc

Digital Camera Websites.doc

1001 Uses for a Digital Camera.doc

Activity Three:

Story in Five Pictures:

Over lunch, participants will take pictures of something happening out there in the REAL WORLD.

We will come back and prepare/share a Photo Story Three project with our five pictures.

A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph, enhancing the limitations of five photographs for your story. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewer imagination. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop an action.

1st photo: establish characters and location.

2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.

3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.

4th photo: build to probable outcomes

5th photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.