A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words Using Digital

A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words: Using Digital Cameras to Enhance Teaching & Learning (Adapted from work by Paula Pedersen & Helen Mongan-Rallis)

Objectives - What you should be able to do after today’s class: n n Demonstrate specific ways to use digital cameras to teach specific concepts. Describe & explain ideas for using digital cameras & digital photos as teaching & learning tools in your own profession.

Practical Issues n n n Why use photos? Why digital cameras? What kind of cameras? We use Sony Mavica because: • no software needed • no downloading • takes images on floppy disks • cross platform • . jpg format so web & PP ready

Enhancing Teaching & Learning with Digital Photos What you do depends on what you want to achieve

A Framework for Using Photos: Using Bloom’s Taxonomy Low level n n ? High level n n Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation

Knowledge & Comprehension To teach or demonstrate lower level thinking

Learning student names: Photos on Course Web Page. Also print hard copy and paste on course folder [Photo of students deleted from this slide because of privacy issues in having this slide posted on the web]

Photos used in online threaded discussion forum

Photos used in database of advising records

“how-to” guidelines for equipment use http: //www. d. umn. edu/itss/classroom/MONH 108/SLIDE. HTM

Guidelines for teaching students lab procedures http: //www. d. umn. edu/~hrallis/guides/imovie/importing. html

Teach identification http: //www. d. umn. edu/geology/coursehtmls/missrocks/intro. html Power. Point of Minerals (shown in class & posted on the web) http: //www. d. umn. edu/~pmorton/geol 2300/powerpoint/color/sld 002. htm

Students in Tim Roufs’ Anthro class can download a Power. Point of slides for the class. Many of these slides show photos Dr. Roufs took with a digital camera http: //www. d. umn. edu/cla/faculty/trouf s/anth 1602/pcweek 06. html

Application & Analysis To teach or demonstrate middle level thinking

Preparation for field trips http: //www. d. umn. edu/~pmorton/geol 2311/field%20 trip/fieldtripoct 28%2 C 2000. html

To learn about other cultures This can be combined with an e-mail pal program, video-conferencing, or web-based discussion board between groups of students from different cultural groups. Student from each site take digital photos and e-mail these or post on web site for others to see.

“Here is a photo which shows Tina facilitating the children rechecking their heights. This was a very natural outgrowth of the children's interests and did not disrupt the group. ” http: //www. d. umn. edu/~hrallis/STEP/Tinas. Observation/Observation. One. TL. html Students take photographs at to illustrate concepts learned in the class. In observation log they analyze the scenes.

Synthesis & Evaluation To teach or demonstrate higher level thinking

Senior Anthropology Seminar: Students reflect on what they have learned and post this on the course web site http: //www. d. umn. edu/~lbelote/srseminar/lastwords 2000. html

Teaching English electronic portfolio: Students are required to create a web-based version of their teaching portfolios. This must include photos & video clips. http: //www. d. umn. edu/~lmillerc/Teaching. English. Home. Page/Portfolios/Portfolio%20 Requirements. html

Example of electronic (web-based)portfolio Use of photos or video clips in portfolio http: //www. d. umn. edu/~kwilliam/portfolio. htm

Photos with Students take photos of each other to show their use of different techniques http: //www. d. umn. edu/~kwilliam/student_pictures. htm

Web-based portfolio for Art Pre-Service Teacher This student took photos of her senior art show & created a virtual exhibition to show her work http: //www. d. umn. edu/~jhummel/portfolio. html

Using Video Clips • Teaching sign language. • Teaching foreign language • Demonstration of techniques (e. g. physical education, science lab) • Speech pathology • Digital storytelling

Using still pictures to create videos Here a student used photos she had taken and also scanned images to create a video to teach about water (video by Rachel Barr)

Activity n n n In your small groups take your digital camera and photograph examples to illustrate your topic. Choose pictures that will promote greater understanding on the concept. As a group, plan how you will use these pictures to teach the concept to the class.

Photo Group Assignments 1. 2. 3. 4. Different geometric shapes (as many different kinds as you can find) Teaching language: position of lips or tongue to create different sounds Examples of non-verbal communication The different parts of a computer

Sharing of Photos Show your photos. Explain how you would use the pictures you took to teach the concept.

Discussion How did this activity expand your thinking about using digital cameras for teaching and learning? n What ways can you think of to use digital photos in your own teaching context? (Sharing in 2 s) n

Conclusion: Where to Now? Select cameras that are easy to use n Begin where you & your students are comfortable n Use framework to scaffold teaching and learning (e. g. Bloom’s Taxonomy) n Be creative! Experiment n Just do it! n