digitalphotography

=Digital Photography=

Using Digital Images in Education
One of the most powerful tools that can be incorporated into any grade level or subject area is the digital camera. The use of images in teaching and learning has benefits to support student comprehension, retention, and application. For example we relate the use of images to spatial intelligence, student motivation to learn, and conditions of instruction. **"Images have a direct route to long-term memory." http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/use.html Research shows the two most important factors in communication are sight and hearing. Whenever possible use visual aids and paint word pictures. How many times would you have to read a book to attain 100% comprehension if we only retain 10% of what we read? Check the numbers below. 50% retention of what we see and hear indicates the importance of video and audio as an information source. Most importantly, 70% of what we say and 90% of what we DO & SAY in our enterprise will be retained.
 * The Use of Images to Support Instruction and Presentation

 
 * **HOW WE LEARN **
 * 83% through sight **
 * 11% through hearing **
 * 3.5% through smell **
 * 1.5% through touch **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">1% through taste **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">HOW WE RETAIN INFORMATION **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">10% of what we read **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">20% of what we hear **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">30% of what we see **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">50% of what we see & hear **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">70% of what we say **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">90% of what we say as we do it **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">HOW INSTRUCTION METHOD AFFECTS RECALL ** ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">3 Hrs. Later ** || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">3 Days Later ** ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Oral ** || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">70% recall **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">10% recall **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Visual **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">72% recall **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">20% recall **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Oral & Visual **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">85% recall **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">65% recall **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"> ||

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">**Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction and corresponding cognitive processes are:** (1) gaining attention (reception) (2) informing learners of the objective (expectancy) (3) stimulating recall of prior learning (retrieval) (4) presenting the stimulus (selective perception) (5) providing learning guidance (semantic encoding) (6) eliciting performance (responding) (7) providing feedback (reinforcement) (8) assessing performance (retrieval) (9) enhancing retention and transfer (generalization). By using digital images within this process, teachers are able to attract students to the lesson and the learning process, relate topics and concepts to prior knowledge and relevant experiences and interests in their lives, promote confidence in their knowledge and abilities, and provide them with a sense of satisfaction in create products with not only academic, but also artistic value.

http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/intro/myths.html
 * Adobe Digital Kids Club: Top 10 Digital Myths:**




 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">Maximum Print Size ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">Capture Resolution Needed ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'"> ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">5 x 7 inches (15 x 20 cm) || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">1 megapixel ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm) || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">2 megapixels ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">11 x 14 inches (28 x 36 cm) || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">3 megapixels ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">20 x 30 inches (50 x 75 cm) || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">4 megapixels ||

Composition 101:
**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Remember: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Variety is the spice of photography. Composition is only limited by your imagination. Experiment, have fun, and keep learning!
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Pay attention to framing. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Nothing ruins a photo faster than distracting elements in the background. Don’t get so focused on the photo’s subject that you ignore what else is going on around them. Watch out for poles, trees and power lines, and look all the way around the edges of the frame, asking “Is this what I really want?”
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Learn the Rule of Thirds. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The human eye has its “visual center” and this is the place that it is naturally drawn to. Imagine the viewfinder is divided into thirds, both horizontally and vertically. This grid creates four points where the lines cross. For the greatest impact, place the subject where the lines intersect, instead of in the center of the frame.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Every photo has a foreground and a background. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">How you want people to look at your picture tells you what to do with the foreground and background. To blur the background, zoom in close and choose a large aperture setting. This works really well for pictures of a person.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Change your line of sight. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Try kneeling, or even putting the camera on the ground. Or climb a flight of stairs so you’re higher than the subject you’re photographing. Digital cameras with twist and tilt LCD screens make it even easier. Changing angles provides a new way of seeing things, and makes for a more dramatic picture.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Look for elements that lead the eyes through the photo. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">A winding path, a row of telephone poles or even a line of chairs at the beach can serve as elements in a good photo.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Keep your eyes open for patterns. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Interesting photos can be made of the waves and patterns created by drifting snow, a flock of birds flying in formation or pipes stacked at a construction site.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Try getting in close. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Look for texture, in the wrinkles of a face or the bark of a tree. Hands say a lot about a person. Pay attention to details.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cropping brings a photo to life. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">If you edit photos on the computer, you are no longer limited to the standard 4 x 6, 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 print sizes. Look at each photo and think about what you really want people to see. Then crop everything else away. Try some unusual shapes, like panoramas or narrow verticals.

Finding Digital Images Online
= Microsoft* ClipGallery Live: http://dgl.microsoft.com/ = = The Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room __ http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/pphome.html __ FreeFoto   http://www.freefoto.com/  FreeStockPhotos.com = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://www.freestockphotos.com/ ** Pics4Learning ** http://pics.tech4learning.com/ http://pictures.fws.gov/ http://images.fws.gov/ __ http://school.discovery.com/clipart/index.html __ **PicSearch** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://www.picsearch.com/ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">
 * U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pictures/Images **
 * Discovery School’s Clip Art Gallery **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">To save a picture from the Internet: **
 * 1) Be sure to find the full size image (not the mini thumbnail)
 * 2) Right-click on the image and a menu will pop up
 * 3) Click on "Save Picture As" and a dialog box will pop up
 * 4) Select a location to Save In (create a folder for the first photo and save all the rest of the photos in that folder)
 * 5) Give it a File Name
 * 6) Click Save



Places to Share your Photos:
Picasa: [|www.picasaweb.com] Flickr: [|www.flickr.com] Snapfish: [|www.snapfish.com] PhotoBucket: [|www.photobucket.com]


 * //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Online Photo Editing //**
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Watch Video on Online Photo Sharing <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=bcd2ff5b9e4a0578e021
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Interactive Whiteboard Activity <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">: Using Flickr
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Classroom Application: [[image:http://multimediatechcamp.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://multimediatechcamp.wikispaces.com/file/view/Picasa+in+the+Classroom.pdf"]][| Picasa in the Classroom.pdf]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Online Tutorial (http://picasa.google.com/support/?hl=en_US)


 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Cool Websites to Create Fun Graphics **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Web Resizer - http://www.webresizer.com/
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Picnik - [|http://www.picnik.com]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Create a photo project and share on Picasa or Flickr
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Big Huge Labs - http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Create a Badge, Motivator, Magazine Cover, Trading Card or Cube


 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dumpr - [|http://www.dumpr.net]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Create a Mueseumr
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Animoto - [|http://www.animoto.com]