Chances are good that you or your students have a camera in your pocket right now. How can we start to use these ubiquitous tools as tools for supporting learning? In this session, we’ll look at photography as an artistic and educational support. Explore various cameras that have use in education, software and techniques for editing and manipulating images and using those images in the production of educational artifacts.

Audience: All levels

Resources:

• Colin Jagoe’s blog
• Ministry licensed software (OSAPAC)
• Tech4Learning
• Photo editors:
  • Photoshop Elements (on OSAPAC), Gimp, Windows Live photo gallery (PC) /iPhoto (Mac), Picasa (Google), Aviary Education Short list of Apps for Photos (pdf)
• Photo sharing sites:
  • Flickr, Posterous, Picasa (Google), Instagram, Twitter – Twitpic, Yfrog
• Project building:
  • Photostory, Frames (OSAPAC), Pixie (OSAPAC)
• Inspiration:
  • Today’s Posting, The Daily Create, 365 Project Group (look for it on Twitter, Flickr), Dear Photograph, iPhone Photo Project (@aforgrave)