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Digital Camera Ideas for educational purposes.
These ideas are split into five general categories: elementary, middle, secondary, adult, and multi-level.
http://extend.unb.ca/thelink/ideas/ideas_dc.shtml

100 Uses for the Digital Camera in the Classroom. Lots of lesson plans included. Click on "Resources" for a lot more! http://www.mansfieldisd.org/Brown/digitalcameras/

Duncan, Deborah. Using a Digital Camera in the Classroom.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/image/DigitalCameraUses.htm

The Lee's Summit R7 School District
has a Digital Media page with many links for using cameras in the classroom. http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/its/digitalmedia.htm

Jerry Creek's Digital Cameras Page – lots of links to lesson plans and ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/digitalcameras.htm

Molina, A. (2005). Project ConTExT. Center for Urban Teacher Education and Technology, Bank Street College of Education.
This pdf file is a research project using photos to help speech-impaired bilingual students remember details of field trips

5 effective ways for young children to use technology
http://www.netc.org/earlyconnections/pub/brochure.pdf.

Storytelling for Non-writers and Non-readers with Digital Cameras - They use PowerPoint to record the student's voice for the story.

Bull, G. & Bell, L., Eds. (2005). Teaching with digital images: Acquire, analyze, create, communicate. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education. Comes with CD of examples. Available from the ISTE Online Bookstore.

Abrams, A. (2006). Award winning digital photography projects for the classroom. Eugene OR: Visions Technology in Education. Comes with CD of examples. Available online from the Tools for Teachers website.

Digital Cameras & Photo Editing School for Teachers & Students
using Olympus and Adobe Photoshop Elements


Additional Fun Software

Using Photo Story 3, a free program from Microsoft for Windows XP users, learn how to "create slideshows using your digital photos." You'll be able to touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures, add special effects, text, and sound. An excellent feature of Photo Story 3 is the small file size of your finished photo stories, small enough to attach to email.

Make comics with your photos!

For Mac - Comic Life free version comes with the Intel Macs. Article with what it does and where to get it. You can also get an upgrade to the Deluxe

For PC - try Comicbook Creator

Share your photos online and make Bragbooks, Calendars, Greeting Cards, or just order prints, etc.

For Mac - you've got iPhoto free with OS X, but there is a fee for making these projects.

For both Mac and PC there are many online photo sites - I like Shutterfly - free download to, fee to print the project.

Technical

Here is a good place for background information on digital cameras. Some of the information gets much deeper than just the basics. Megapixel.com has articles on tops for using your camera, a glossary of technical terms, what to look for when purchasing, and much more!
http://www.megapixel.net/html/articles/guide3.php

Cell phone photos

Steven E. Quasha. Testing communicative competence using mobile phone digital photos. http://www.jalt.org/pansig/2003/HTML/Quasha.htm

 


 
 
 
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