Still photos are a great tool for use in student learning
This article is about the benefits of using talking graphics and avitars to grab their students attention. Using these avitars has been shown to improve education because you have your own personal tutor available at anytime. There is a link below to the article site.
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/talking_avatars_education_virtual_teacher_comes_age.html
I Didn't Know You Could Do That with Free Web Tools is an article written by a teacher who uses all sorts of technology in his classroom its really interesting looking at his wiki page and his suggestions for successful ways to use flickr in the classroom.
view-source:http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/k12online06
here are some examples of how fun still pictures can be
Photos and photo editing with Pixlr. Then dropped into Google Draw. I will post my drawings three ways jpg, pdf, and embedded.
Photo Poster.pdf
Here is my voki
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=10407018&height=267&width=200
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=10407018&height=267&width=200
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Here is my Photobabble
Here are more educational RESOURCES using still photography
Using graphics from the web
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-liberation-of-paris-august-1944-jubilant-crowds-take-to-news-photo/463907159
This picture is about the liberation of Paris and is availble to use for non commercial use as stated on the website |
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http://web.b.ebscohost.com/hrc/detail/detail?vid=10&sid=92d4cd75-7a2a-43e9-a084-0365566f411e%40sessionmgr112&hid=124&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWNvb2tpZSxpcCxjcGlkJmN1c3RpZD1zNzMyNDk2NCZzaXRlPWhyYy1saXZl#db=khh&authdb=him&AN=imh229380
This is from the Badgerlink site but the image is provided by Getty http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/01/20-wonderful-online-museums-and-sites.html
This is the google labeled with modifications picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
This is my Google labeled for reuse http://www.halfahundredacrewood.com/2011/05/classical-conversations-cycle-3.html
This is my Google image labeled for non commercial use with modifications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-07/News_and_notes
This is my Google image labeled for noncommercial reuse |
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How My students could use these computer skills. |
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My future students could use still photos in projects about historical topic and they could use photobabble and other photo editing sites to enhance there digital projects. These new photo editing sites allows the text to come alive and gives the students the opportunity to manipulate their chosen photos encouraging students to become more engaged in the report or topic. This is also a way for us as teachers to assess both their technical skills along with there content knowledge. It is important to teach our students to use technology responsible and part of that is teaching the correct use of pictures from the web. Not all pictures can be used legally so it is important to understand the copyright laws.