Images

Digital Images

Field Assignment:  [|Digital Images Field Assignment.pdf]

Choosing a digital camera for your classroom: I would want a basic digital camera with video taking capabilities and slight zoom, with a lot of storage for lots and lots of pictures. I plan on using the camera almost on a daily basis to record my teaching methods and the children's experiences/achievements/crafts. I would also like to create a classroom yearbook for each student to take home as a memento of our time together throughout the year.

10 Ways To Use Digital Cameras for Students: 1. Send a worksheet with an image of a digital camera home for students to label. Request that students have permission from their parents to experiment with a digital camera under parental supervision. 2. Have students take pictures of 5 things they feel describe themselves at home and bring the images to class on a CD or flash drive. Have students create a scrapbook page all about themselves that will be the cover of their own personal classroom yearbook. 3. To help students grasp the concept of perspective, instruct each student to choose one person and take pictures of 5 of that person's favorite things from that person's perspective. 4. Using a digital camera, create a video of each student stating their favorite subject and least favorite subject in school and why. Then ask each student one lesson or activity (within reason) that they would like to do in class that year, and try to incorporate that information into my curriculum the entire year long. 5. Allow each student's parents to record themselves asking questions about myself/my teaching methods/opinions/curriculum and submit them to me on my wiki, and then record myself reading and answering the questions.
 * 6. Give students a list of items to look for in the classroom or in the school. They must take pictures and compile a presentation (slide show, web page, etc.) of the things they found during their scavenger hunt to prove they found them all. **
 * 7. Take pictures to document other growth, such as plants, butterflies, frogs, etc. Use these pictures to illustrate life cycles or stages of growth. **
 * 8. Use the camera to take pictures of the Students of the Week, or "Spotlight." Print them out to display on their certificates. **
 * 9. Take black and white headshots of each student, size it to a quarter page with a box frame around it then add a blank box beside it (the same size as the framed picture). This would take up the top half of the page. Repeat the process with another student's headshot and empty box below that first one. Then cut the page in half giving each student their own headshot and blank box on the half-sheet. The students then draw 1/2 - 1 in. gridlines in pencil on both the headshot and the empty box next to the headshot. They label the gridlines as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., going each direction. They try to duplicate their pictures by drawing only what they see in each box. **
 * 10. Take pictures during plays, sporting events, or other special events. Make a slide show of these activities. **