There are a lot of programs that allow you to edit a photo to many varying degrees. The most common of things are removing red-eye, cropping, and rotating of images. These are all pretty simple. The things that I discovered in Photoshop that I found new and useful are manually adjusting color, adjusting contrast, and what you might call patching or covering where you can write over part of an image with another part of that image. (very helpful for removing unseemly objects, lines, or people from images.)
Image 1: Manually adjusted colors to make it more vivid.
Image 2: Removed people from an image so it was only a landscape.
Image 3: Composite photo.
Image 2: Removed people from an image so it was only a landscape.
Image 3: Composite photo.
This technology comes in handy when you want to use images to give your students a more authentic feel, or image. Sometimes you have an old photo that is difficult to see and you could sharpen it, or you only want them to see part of it, or you wish to put multiple images on the same slide or spot and a composite or collage would work better than individual images.
As a history teacher I would love this for powerpoints of lectures. I think power points should only enhance and not replace a lecture or discussion with the teacher and this could be useful. Also the more primary documents I can give my students that they can see and appreciate the better. If I can get an image of the Constitution and blow it up so they can read the actual words in the paper or look at the original John Hancock, I feel that might help arouse interest in a topic many find boring. It could also be a great way to have students do small personal projects by making collages that define a certain time period or event and have a written explanation of the images to go along with them.
This tool could be used to fulfill certain core standards such as...
- US History I: Standard 2
Students will investigate the relationship between events of different time periods. - US History I: Standard 8
Students will examine the expansion of the political system and social rights before the Civil War. - US History II: Standard 1
Students will expand their knowledge of pre-Reconstruction America. - US History II: Standard 3
Students will recognize how social reform occurred at the turn of the century.
I would love to use this in my classes.
Great work! This is a valuable technology to learn. Could you indicate a few state core standards that the assignments you thought of would relate to? Thanks!
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