Creative Things with Digital Photography

Film vs. Digital  Film camera inexpensive  Film developing costs  Quality of shots  Photo developing problems  Need scanner to transfer photos  Discarding bad photos

Digital vs. Film  Equipment expensive  Need editing software  Immediate feedback  No film developing  Reuseable storage system

Digital Camera Issues  Purpose and cost  Resolution and image size  Zoom capability  Memory / storage capacity  Retrieval of images  Battery capability  Editing software

Digital Photo Ideas Digital photo sketch Digital Photo

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Digital Photos

Photo Editing

Digital Information on the Internet

www. ofoto.com

 Source for Adobe's Photoshop (A fairly expensive software that allows you to manipulate photos, art work etc.) Photo Deluxe also available here. An inexpensive software that does some of the same things that Photoshop offer. Easy to use and maneuver  free program that lets you put a new photo on your desktop and screen saver every day. Internet Sources

 Try Photo Shop Pro, photo editing software, for a brief  period of time.  /00-1/lesson0042.shtml Lesson to make a digital quilt  qvuses.htm 1001 uses for a digital camera More Internet Sources

 lessons/lesson20.html Picture This: Photography in Adult Basic Education (lesson plan) One Last Internet Source

Things to do with a Digital Camera  Document students' progress for portfolios, etc.  Photo journal  Class yearbook/scrapbook  Calendar (Invent It or Avery's Photo Calendar Kit)  Pictorial alphabet book (Family Literacy )

More Activities  Photograph new tutors. Put pictures in database or on tutor information sheets.  Photograph students. Put pictures in database or on student information sheets  Have the students photo document their neighborhoods and then write about them.

 Use photo editing options and create picture watermarks for students' biographies.  Use photos to incorporate them into Power Point presentations, etc. Even More Activities

 For math, take photos of angles, triangles, things that are parallel, perpendicular, circular, etc.  Take pictures to document "The Day in the Life of.... "  Photos for greeting cards, business cards, etc. More Activities

 Photos to make T-shirt transfers. (Need special paper, software often comes with paper)  Photos for concepts/vocabulary taught in ESL classes.  Photos of staff (volunteers, etc.). Post on bulletin boards, etc.

More Activities  Using photo editing, create "coloring book" (Family Literacy)  Using photo editing create "fun money" for reward coupons for Family Literacy activities

 Photograph community landmarks. Students create a brochure about the community  Photograph objects that are the same color, shape, number or alphabet. (Family Literacy) More Activities

 Create a set of cards naming such abstract concepts or emotions such as freedom, love, hate, honor, joy, etc. Have students select a card and take a photograph illustrating that concept.

 Have students go on a photographic scavenger hunt, taking pictures of the objects they find rather than retrieving the objects themselves. Even More Activities

More Activities  Take pictures related to whatever topic you're studying. Have students write about them. Pictures provide a good visual prompt for creative writing

 Have students take pictures, exchange them and then have students write about the photos  Check out digital camera to students for the weekend Finally, More Activities