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Monday, June 25, 2007

Digital Photography and Video Projects for Improving Learning

Another good session with lots of ideas!
Here are the lecture notes:

Dr. Arnie Abrams
www.arnieabrams.net

Click on Handouts – Digital Photo and Video Projects

Technology that can be integrated in to the curriculum

Project formats

Still Photography - .jpg, Powerpoint

Flash animations – SWF

Single-Frame Animation

Stills and video brought together as video

Videos – MOV, AVI,WMP,MP4

Share movies – tape, CD, DVD, online

Sources of Projects

Various organizations and university contests

International Student Media Festival

Film Festivals – youth awards

Manufacturers contest – Sony, Apple, Adobe

Discovery Educator Network

Apple Student Gallery – Learning Interchange

Adobe Digital Kids Club

Google Videos, Your Tube

Cross Curriculum Projects

Final Paper, research report, presentations

Portraits of our school

Cultural Understanding –the invention of the Caesar Salad

Digital portfolios

“All About Me”

The Arts / Technology / Careers

Macro –Abstract photography – use the macro setting on the camera to take very close up pictures, ask other students to guess what it is

On-going assignment

Photo journalism assignment

Digital Ethics

It is very easy to change pictures, ask students to manipulate pictures and then have other students guess which one is the real one.

Media Literacy

Make a commercial – Rule of Thirst – SFETT

Public Service Announcement – Escondido

Language Arts / Foreign Language

Photo sequences or every picture tells a story

Story Starters

Digital Storytelling

Personal expression

Book reports come to life

Phoetry – Write or read a poem and then take pictures to accompany the poem

Bilingual photo dictionary

Digital Storytelling – “Don’t Laugh at Me”, “On the Road Again”

Science

Weather images

Environmental issues

Extreme close-ups

Time-lapse photography

Single frame animations – “If Only This room would clean its self” “Planets”

Flash animations

360 degree panorama – take pictures in all directions, put it into a program and make your 360 video or 360 object.

SimplyVR from tech for learning

Pano or panorama or spin

Social Studies

Field trip documentary

Past present future community

“McAuliffe” – time passages

Math Projects

Shapes and patterns – make a poster of a pattern or a shape

Human bar chart – process video

Visual count

Fraction photos

Other Curriculum Topics

Rules and procedures

Health and issues – “For Life”

Illustrating emotions

Digital scavenger hunt – can take pictures rather than real things, pollution scavenger hunt

Teacher Tools

Visual seating chart and student ID cards

Enhancing field trips with cameras – before hand to introduce, send pictures to person who gave the field trip, use instead of going on the field trip – virtual field trip

Class orientation and rules

Share teacher experiences

Class videocasts

Teacher Experiences – “Carpe Diem”

Software for producing projects

iMovie

Photoshop Elements

iPhoto

Premiere Elements

Microsoft Photo Story 3

Picasa

Classroom & Project management tips

Keep the video under 3 minutes

Encourage using a tripod

Minimize printing

Share & distribute projects

Submitting to contests

Explain confidentiality & appropriateness

Check permission to shoot pictures

Copyright and copying

Assessing media projects

Rubrics for multimedia projects

Creative use of technology

Content choice

Organization 0 mechanics

Personal reflection

Camera Management Tips

Inexpensive cameras for student use

Standardize equipment

No “hand off”

Keep a camera handy

Keep spare batteries charged

Lots of small memory cards and tapes

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