Digital Camera and Photography |
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| Editing Tools |
What I use:
- Picasa 2 is free downloadable software from Google that organizes digtial photos on your hard drive using thumbnail size visual images. It also features basic editing tools such as cropping, rotation, fixing red eye. The advanced editing tools allow users to adjust lighting, apply bland and white filter effects, straighten image and collage them. You can also email and print photos.
- Picnik: free, on-line photo editing site
Other:
- Dosize: resize and email your photos in 3 easy steps
- Drumpr: free, on-line tools for making fun things with your photos
- Fauxto: free, replicates photoshop includes layers
- Glimp: free, replicates photoshop
- IrfanView: a free image editing tools
- Kodak Picture Center allows you to upload photos and add creative design effects to them.
- mypictr: great for cropping, creating avatars or buddie icon
- PhotoPlus: free, photo editing software
- PhotoWipe: "PhotoWipe is a revolutionary image processing tool that magically removes unwanted objects from your photos. Just paint over them in black, and click go! Uncovers hidden details in your photos. Sit back and watch as cage bars disappear from the zoo, and your old girlfriend or boyfriend fades away. It removes wrinkles, or it can remove entire facial features." free download
- Pikipimp: add cartoon bubbles, hats, glasses, etc to a photo
- Pixer.us: on-line editing
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| Classroom Use |
- 100 Ways to Use Digital Camera
- 1001 Uses for a Digital Camera
- Adobe Digital Kids Club: provides free expert advice from top photographers, product training, lessons and other resources all helping teachers to integrate digital photography and digital imaging into daily classroom activities.
- Click and Construct: Using Digital Cameras to Improve the Writing Skills
- Digital Camera Web Links
- Digital Cameras: a list of online resources
- Digital Cameras in Education
- Digital Cameras in the Classroom
- Kodak Lesson Plans: listed by subject and grade levels K-12
- Kodak: Taking Great Pictures
- Teacher to Teacher
- TechLearning: Ten Tips for Making your Photos a Curriculum Hit
- Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom
- Using a Digital Camera in the Classroom
- Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom
- What to do with a digital camera: Ideas for using a camera for areas of Support, Curriculum, and Assessment.
- enhancing lesson worksheets, teacher overheads, test items, food preparation notes, science reports, etc.
- e-mail attachments (e.g. sharing photos, global collaborative projects, epals)
- getting images into web pages quickly and easily
- self esteem activities (merit certificates, student of the week, etc.)
- school promotional material (e.g. photos for newspaper, newsletters, pamphlets, posters)
- assisting language teaching (e.g. vocabulary) - suitable for LOTE, ESL, NESB and other programs
- providing relevant lesson material to hearing impaired students
- recording information on excursions or field trips
- producing slideshows or presentations
- recording student progress (including difficult-to-record evidence for process outcomes)
- recording sequences of events in science experiments
- preparation of photo sheets to introduce staff or students
- student photos in teachers markbooks or administration records
- record images of assembly of 3-D objects (e.g. for later reassembling, instructions to others)
- provide substitute teacher with a seating plan that includes a photo of each student
- adding personal photos on cards which are then laminated (e.g. library card or student ID card)
- learning about photography concepts (e.g. lighting, depth of field, motion effects)
- up-to-the-minute public relations brochures, flyers
- taking images to show key stages for job progress records
- asset management photos for stocktake or inventory purposes
- presenting images on parents nights of students at work & play
- photos of successful architectural facilities in schools
- providing photos to make custom calendars or greeting cards
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| Publishing and Sharing |
What I use:
Other
- All You Can Upload: no limit, upload a photo, you will be provided with a direct link or code snippets that you can use to display the image on a blog or web site.
- Flip: make a flipbook with images. clipart, and music; code to embed;
- Fotowoosh: will turn any image (preferably an outdoor image) into a 3D model.
- Gallery
- JAlbum is a gallery software that makes web albums from your digital images
- Magic Studio
- Photobucket
- Scrapblog
- Viewbook: The cleanest online portfolios, presentations and photo albums
- VoiceThread: narrate your photos with your own voice
- Zazzle
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