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=Why Integrate Digital Images?=

Communication
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of the flickering pictures - in this century as in others, Antoine de Saint -Exupery (1900 - 1944)
 * our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing people together**.”

For centuries the phrase, "A picture is worth a thousand words." has held true. Digital Images gives us additional possibilities. When I first began this presentation, I asked myself two questions - Why do we need to integrate digital images and What can we do with digital images? These questions are very closely related.

I gave myself 5 minutes to come up with as many examples of what we can do with images, then went back and listed a few ways I might use them.


 * * Class photos - adding to I am poems
 * Virtual Tours - sharing your classroom with others in cultural experiences
 * Science Journals - each student takes a picture relating to the class topic and then reflects how their image relates to their learning
 * Math Journal - take pictures of work with manipulatives or found math
 * Concept Pictures - taking pictures to explain concepts
 * Geometric Art - using simple drawing programs to build objects with geometric shapes
 * Field Trip Reviews - Not every student sees experiences from the same point of view.
 * Create Movies - students become engaged in creation
 * Create Books - writing stories that integrate text and images helps writers
 * Create Portfolios - archiving events, activities and reflections on them
 * || * Share experiences - email photos to family or other classesReflect on events - could be personal events or world events
 * Create Slideshows - parents night - assembly
 * Teach math in nature - Capture shapes, curves etc
 * Learn Photography - how to make good images
 * Learn Graphic Design - creating images to tell stories
 * Create Copyright free images - If you make it, you can use it how you want
 * Integrate into podcasts - enhanced podcasts tell more than just the voice.
 * Highlight change over time (timelapse) - Amaryllis bulb growth
 * Investigate looking at things from different perspective
 * Use Digital Microscope - exploring our world in a different way - understanding colour, shapes, size
 * Create Tableau from class activities-
 * Create Stop Motion Videos - tell stories by creating them one step at a time
 * Enhance written projects - tell part of the story visually
 * Fun ||
 * I read the list to my wife and we came up with the following additional ideas.


 * 1) Sports or Dance - self-evaluation
 * 2) Science Experiments
 * 3) Visual Awards with pictures
 * 4) To show something to the class or school that you can't physically touch or observe
 * 5) Share experiences, Share Learning
 * 6) Digital Storytelling || Asking my 7 year old daughter, she responded, "Well its really cool with some of the pictures you can take, Sometimes its just really pretty. Sometimes is really something I don't want to forget about." ||

Let's be sure we are being purposeful. This is an image from the New York Times in 1927.

llustration 1: Today's Aerial Geography Lesson New York Times No. 306-NT-520 A-6 in National Archives found on http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2001/fox.html

Sample Images

Sample Movies