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Smart Snappy Digital Photo Projects
Learn how to insert digital photos
Learn how to create a non-linier presentation
Learn how to import student drawings.

• Presented by Dottie Garcia

dottiegarcia_at_lubbock.k12.tx.us Lubbock
Independent School District
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How to Insert Digital Photos

• Take a picture with any digital camera
• Save your pictures in a file
• Create a new folder
• Rename pictures
• Insert Picture from file Click on the photo
  you want
• Determine the path for the students

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How to Insert Digital Photos into KidPix

• KidPix
• Take a picture with any digital camera.
• Choose a folder to save it in.
• From the file menu Import Graphic
• Navigate to the folder and select your picture.
• Click OK

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Import Pictures into PowerPoint

• On a PowerPoint slide.
• Go to Insert Picture from file Click on the
  photo file you want.
• Navigate to the folder and select your picture.
• Click OK

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How to Create a Non-linier Presentation

• Story Boards
• Creating Navigation Buttons
• On-line Resources
• (Download theses documents from
  www.lubbock.k12.tx.us/dfitzner )

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Import Chart from Excel
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Excel Chart Instructions

• Create a chart on Excel
• Make sure the chart is selected
• Click on the small triangle next to the fill
  bucket for Fill Effects.
• Click on the Picture Tab
• Click on Select Picture
• The default folder is My Pictures, select a
  picture from here or from another source
• You may have to adjust your chart colors
• Copy your chart
• Open your PowerPoint slide and Paste in your
  chart.

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Digital Camera Ideas

• Take a picture of each student using the digital
  camera. Cut picture in half. Ask each student to
  draw the other half of their face while
  discussing symmetry.
• Collect pictures using the digital camera all
  year. At the end of the school year , burn the
  pictures onto a CD for an End-of-year memory
  book.
• Take pictures of a field trip with digital
  camera. Print out 1 set of copies. Ask children
  to sequence pictures in a center. Add writing
  lines to the bottom of the page for a writing
  assignment.
• Take pictures of each childs parents at open
  house.
• Place pictures into buttons, key chains, and
  ornaments for parent/grandparent gifts.
• Have students write positive comments about
  classmates, attach these comments to the digital
  photo and post around the room, or give back to
  the students

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More Digital Camera Ideas

• Use as wallpaper on computer background
• Enlarge a dollar bill or another bill. Place the
  childs picture in the center of the bill.
• Have each child demonstrate an action and take a
  picture of the student actually doing it for an
  action verb book.
• For open house or parent/teacher conferences,
  make a PowerPoint presentation using pictures of
  what your class has been dong. Show while
  parents are waiting to meet with you.
•  Have students create passports during a
  travel/culture unit in foreign language
• Create STUDENT OF THE MONTH bulletin boards
• Newsletters, Webpages
• E-mail photos to penpals
• Student autobiographies
• visual seating chart for the substitute teachers
• photograph examples of superior student projects
  to give other students ideas

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Lessons

• Digital Camera This lesson is for young children
  and the use of the digital camera.
• Grade Level - K-2
• Letter People Book
• This lesson allows students to relate to the
  letter person that is the letter of their first
  name.
• Grade Range Kindergarten
• Photo Essay
• The student will be able to demonstrate an
  understanding of sequencing by illustrating a
  story about themselves through photographs taken
  with the digital camera. illustrating a story
  about themselves through photographs taken with
  the
• Grade 3-5
• (Download theses documents from
  www.lubbock.k12.tx.us/dfitzner )

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Digital Camera Hotlist

• The Casio Digital Camera Lesson Plan Database
• http//itcenter.clemson.edu591/casioplans/   
• Beginning March 13, after grading of student
  lesson plans has completed, the student lesson
  plan database will be opened up for public
  consumption. Hundreds of lesson plans that
  capitalize on digital camera usage and developed
  by Clemson University Education majors will be
  accessible in this searchable database.
• Kodak Digital Photo Educational Site
• http//www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/
• Welcome to the Digital Learning Center (DLC). The
  DLC is a collection of information, tips and
  techniques on Digital Imaging.

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Tips Tricks

• Ten Basic Tips For Working With Pictures In
  PowerPoint
• Camera Checklist
• Digital cameras have many uses including

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More Sites

• Digital Camera Tutorial http//www.uwf.edu/coe/tut
  orials/technolo/digitalc/digitalc.htm?ti2Xdwwww.u
  wf.edu/coe/tutorials/technolo/digitalc/digitalc.h
  tm
• Have you ever been surfing the web and "run
  across" someone's picture? When you saw it, did
  you wonder how they got their picture on the web?
  Well, here's your answer. To get the picture on
  the web, it had to be digitized first. There are
  a couple different ways to digitize photos We're
  going to show you how to use a digital camera to
  take your picture.
• How Stuff Works Digital Cameras
• http//www.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera.htm
• How does a filmless camera actually work? The
  heart of a digital camera is the image sensor
  that digitally records light either a charge
  coupled device (CCD) or a complementary metal
  oxide semiconductor (CMOS.) How Stuff Works
  explains the whole process and includes plenty of
  practical buying tips along the way. Top click is
  the Feature section which will help you better
  understand digital camera jargon.

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More Sites

• Learn2 Shop for a Digital Camera
• http//www.learn2.com/08/0894/0894.asp
• "A pixel is worth a thousand words." Once you've
  decided to join the digital photo revolution,
  your first challenge is choosing a camera. In
  just four steps, Learn2 takes you from
  Understanding the Terminology to Considering
  Special Features. To print all four pages of the
  lesson, click on All Steps at Once (printable
  version.)
• Short Courses
• http//www.shortcourses.com/
• Short Courses is my digital photography pick of
  day for its encyclopedic collection of online
  tutorials.  
• 1001 Uses of a Digital Camera in Education
• http//pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/ucfcasio/qvuses.htm
• This site is designed as a reference tool putting
  educators in touch with creative educational
  applications for digital cameras in educational
  settings. Submitted lessons and applications that
  have been used successfully in the classroom will
  be displayed for other educators to view and
  print.

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Updates More
www.lubbock.k12.tx.us/dfitzner
Contact me Dottie Fitzner Integration
Technologist Lubbock Independent School
District 806-766-1203 Dfitzner_at_lubbock.k12.tx.us