Photo+editing+and+sharing

Photo editing and sharing is awesome! It is hard for me to break from traditional pictures in scrapbooks, but the application for storing and sharing digital photos on line is so cool! I laugh when I think of all the photos I have on disks or saved on my computer. I wonder- why take great pictures and then fail to do anything with them...

There are so many ways that students can use photo editing in education. I envision my class acting out parts from a novel we are reading and sequencing important events. I can also see students make a photo share for characters.

I am going to share photos of my students working in the classroom. (I have permission.) The lesson I taught was on "irony." I found an article about the irony of duck/duct tape. After the reading lesson to teach irony, I had students create with duck tape. To bridge to a writing lesson and teach second person, I assigned students the task of writing simple instructions on how to make their duck tape item. Then, another student had to read the instructions to see if they could make the same product. It was very eye opening! Students learned that instructions must be precise and sequential. It was an amazing lesson. The pictures show our experiences.

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