Photo Management

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Photo Management
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Classroom Projects

• Todays students have been exposed to digital
  and video images all of their lives.
• The need for visual literacy skills rivals the
  need for traditional literacy.
• Activities and projects completed with digital
  images compliment all curriculum areas and most
  learning styles, especially visual and
  kinesthetic.

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• Digital photography activities are not about
  taking pictures, but using the camera as a tool
  to help you explore and understand other
  subjects.
• Activities and projects do not have to be fancy,
  long, expensive, or even pretty. They only have
  to capture the attention and enthusiasm of our
  children.

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• The use of digital cameras and images also
  addresses the point that technology is merely a
  tool we use to educate our children.
• We should bend technology to meet our needs
  instead of letting it drive our activities. Our
  main goal as teachers is to help students learn
  the curriculum.

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• Digital pictures are immediate, versatile,
  colorful, interactive and successfully engage the
  attention of students.
• The products of these lessons are wonderful tools
  for reinforcement and review.
• Using digital cameras will stimulate and motivate
  both students and teachers. The subjects that
  this technology can be used with are limited only
  by the imagination.

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Project ActivityIdeas
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People ABC Books

• Have students pose as letters of the alphabet.
  You could use upper grade students for the upper
  case letters and the younger students for the
  lower case.

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Sequence of Events

• Take a series of pictures to illustrate a
  sequence of events. Taking the pictures by
  themselves helps the students to focus on the
  correct order.

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Photo Book Reports
Let the students arrange and photograph items in
a way that tells about a particular book. Use one
photo or a series of photos depending on the
complexity of the plot in each book.
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Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?

• PSE 2005-06 5th Grade Students

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Labels Please

• Use pictures to label the parts of something. You
  can combine this activity with Name that Animal
  and show the parts you want the students to label
  in isolation.

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Solids, Liquids and Gases
Go on safari to collect photos of objects
depicting the different classifications of matter.
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Machines at Work

• Take pictures of items that show examples of
  machines from simple to compound.

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What type of changes are shown here?
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English Please Inglés Por favor?

• Send ESOL students around the school to take
  photos of things they dont know how to say in
  English. They can work with English speaking
  classmates to create a presentation showing all
  forms of the word.

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• Do you have permission to take and use this
  childs photo?
• Do your students wear name tags? If so, is the
  name visible in the picture?

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Tips Tricks
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What is resolution?

• A digital photograph is made up of pixels
• single points in the image that can take on any
  one of millions of colors
• Resolution - pixels wide by of pixels deep

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You Can Have Too Little or Too Much

• Cant add resolution to a photograph after it has
  been taken
• Make sure the resolution on the camera is set
  correctly, before you take the photograph
• Too much resolution takes time, consumes memory,
  and rapidly fills your disk.
• Too little, and you have to go back and take it
  again

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How much resolution do I need?
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Setting Camera Resolution

• Usually a setting you can change in the cameras
  menu
• Image Quality or similar phrasing
• Up or Down arrow to scroll through the options
• The larger the resolution (ex. 4Mp) the fewer
  pictures that can be taken in one sitting
• Probably have to resize once downloaded
  especially for publishing on web pages or in
  files transferred by email or storage device
  (PowerPoint file, etc.)

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Tips for Photos on the Go

• Empty your media card before you leave
• Download to your computer and delete from device
• Cull out the bad shots on the fly
• Pick up a spare media card and batteries

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Reviewing Images on the Camera

• Usually a Playback button you can press if your
  camera has an LCD screen
• Navigation arrow buttons to scroll through
• Delete
• Use sparingly uses up the battery

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Exporting from Camera to Computer

• Connect camera or memory card to computer
• When prompted, click Microsoft Scanner and Camera
  Wizard.

The computer will begin to copy the images from
your camera.
By default, all images are selected. Deselect
ones you dont want to download. Use tools to
rotate.
Type a name for the picture files. Browse to a
folder to save them in. Pay attention! Delete
from camera after copying?
Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard
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Where to save your photos

• Create a logical folder structure
• Start with My Pictures folder
• Create a subfolder for each year 2004, 2005,
  2006, etc.
• Create multiple subfolders any time you take more
  than 30 pictures.
• Name the folders in a meaningful way

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Viewing Your Photos on the Computer

• View icon on the toolbar
• Thumbnail View

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Viewing Your Photos on the Computer

• Filmstrip
• View

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Finding your pictures

• Open your My Pictures folder.
• Click the View menu, point to the Explorer Bar,
  and then click Search.
• In the All or part of the file name
• box, type the name of the person you
• are looking for, and then click the
• Search button.
• After a few moments, Windows XP
• displays pictures with that persons
• name in the file name.

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What are suitable file formats to use?

• TIF (Tagged Image File format) - lossless
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) - lossless
• JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) - lossy
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) lossless
• Loss of detail each time opened and saved
• Two types of compression
• Lossless loses none of the image info.
• Lossy removes some of the original info., but
  compresses/reduces the file size more

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Suitability of each format to particular
applications
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Resizing Digital Pictures Without Opening them

• Free Windows XP download Image Resizer
• Right-click on the picture file you want to
  resize
• Click Resize Pictures.
• Click the size you want.
• Click OK.
• A new, resized file has been added to the same
  folder.

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Should I print all my images?

• Most of the images from digital cameras will
  stay digital for their entire lifespan. Born of a
  digital camera, growing up on a PC, spending
  their old age on a cd-rom and occasionally being
  reassembled from bits onto a PC display.

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How do I share images, then?

• Email
• Free web sites
• Personal web sites
• Need to share high quality images?
• Cd-rom

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What do I do with my thousands of images?
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Organizational Note

• When you open the Master Photo, edit it and save
  the edited file
• Do FileSave Asrename the photo with a
  meaningful name so as not to replace the original
  Master Photo
• Save the edited photo (offspring) in the same
  location as the Master Photo

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Perfect, Publish Share
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Free download at www.tucows.com Search
Irfanview
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• Locate and organize all the photos on your
  computer.
• Edit and add effects to your photos with a few
  simple clicks
• Share your photos with others through email,
  prints, and on the web

Download for free at picasa.google.com
http//www.google.com/educators/p_picasa.html
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Download for free Google Photo Story
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• Import video, photos, and audio
• Add titles, transitions, and special effects
• Record narration
• Export as a movie file that can be played on your
  computer, burned to a CD or DVD, or emailed as an
  attachment

Comes as part of Windows XP update Service Pack 2
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Any Questions?