1. Selecting Visuals

2. Types of Images u Fidelity – degree of realism u Black-line drawings to color photographs u Graphics – fantasy vs. reality

3. Degree of Realism Black-line Drawing vs. Color Photograph

4. Degree of Realism Cartoon vs. Reality

5. Graphics – Degree of Realism

6. Selection Criteria u Audience u Purpose – motivate, inform, instruct u Instructional objective – desired outcome

7. Audience u Sophisticated viewers can link abstract representations to real- world referents

8. Audience u Less sophisticated viewers have more difficulty creating a link between abstract representations and real-world referents

9. Image Sources u Digital camera u Scanner u Clip art collections u Photo CD’s u Draw/Paint u Internet images

10. Graphic File Formats u PICT - is supported by all graphics programs that run on a Macintosh. u BMP - standard bit-mapped graphics format used in the Windows environment. u GIF - Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web. u JPEG - Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a compression technique for color images.

11. Copyright and Images u Fair Use Law u Print Images –Clip Art Books –Other Sources u Digital Images –Digital camera –Scanner –Clip art collections –Photo CD’s –Draw/Paint –Internet images

12. Copyright Information 1. Crash Course in Copyright http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm 2. The Copyright Workshop http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html 3. 10 Big Myths About Copyright http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html 4. Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web-University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html#copy 5. Copyright Resources on the Internet – Groton Public Schools http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm

13. Searching the Internet for Images u The direct approach u Image finder features of search engines u Specialized image search tools

15. Search Feature of Search Tools u Available with ixquick (pictures), AltaVista (images and video), HotBot (images and video), Go.com (images and video) u Most return results as thumbnails of the image

19. Specialized Image Search Tools u Ditto.com –Search or browse by category –Includes pictures that have been reviewed –Send requests to “Ditto Detective” if you can’t find an image in the Ditto database –Linked keywords included in results –Images are protected by copyright

20. Other Choices u FreeFoto u http://www.freefoto.com u GoGraph u http://www.gograph.com u The Amazing Picture Machine u http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

21. To Download u Right click u Save image as

22. u Can rename the image u Consider the format

23. Clip-Art Web Sites u http://www.webclipart.about.com/internet/webclipart/ http://www.webclipart.about.com/internet/webclipart/ u http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm u http://www.clipart.com/ http://www.clipart.com/ u http://www.webplaces.com/search http://www.webplaces.com/search u http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ u http://clipartresource.com http://clipartresource.com