Final Thoughts for First Weekend

Okay, it's Sunday afternoon. It's been a crazy weekend. I learned so much about Photoshop. It is an excellent software program for digital pictures. I really enjoyed learning the ins and outs of the program. I feel that if I bought it and could play with it in my free time I would learn so much more than the few things I learned in class. I could only imagine what my photographs would look like in my house. I especially loved the filters and would use them so much if I decided to buy the program. I am go to have the photographs that I experimented with printed and framed for the house. The midterm project was fun. I enjoyed experimenting with my virtual garden. I took shots of different plants from different angles and completed each one differently. The Ludke library tour was helpful especially since I am planning on continuing my education after Lesley. I cannot believe that I finished my midterm this weekend! This is the first class where I do not have a major project to complete for the next weekend!

Fun with Photoshop

In Photoshop with this picture I played with hues and saturation for each individual picture. I loved playing with the types of edges and frames for each pictures. The backgrounds were so much fun and just about every one of the pictures I experimented with have some kind of background. With the pictures in the corners I played with the black and white choices and with the color pictures in the middle I played with filters. My favorite filter is fresco and that is used in my midterm as well. Basically I played around with much of the effects and choices in Photoshop until I achieved my desired photo.

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Using Digital Images to Engage Young Learners written by Judy Van Scoter

This article was helpful in discussing ways digital cameras and technology could be used in a classroom. By allowing students to photograph they can look at objects or study concepts through a different perspective. They can document and take pictures of projects they are working on. Classes can create class books and create images from a digital camera to be the illustrations. This allows the student to have some freedom in what they create and have a sense of authorship.

For teachers the digial camera can be used for many different ways. One way the article talked about was using it for digitizing artwork and classwork. The originals are sent home and the teacher can use the files to show progress. In families where English is the second languages pictures can be sent home with the students and families can dicuss the pictures in the native language.

This was a very informative article. It gave me some great ideas for use in my own classroom. I plan on allowing students to use the digital camera more frequently this next school year.

Goals

• Effectively use a digital camera


• Learn to take great pictures


• how to effectively post pictures within a blog or website


• how to download and edit pictures

Born Into Brothels

Born into Brothels was a great documentaty. The film was about a phtotographer that traveled to Calcutta's red light district to live with the prostitutes. However, she bonded instantly with the children. She reached out to them by giving them cameras and telling them to take pictures. The children lead such troubled lives and yet they have a great spirit. Gour really impressed me and I believe he will remain in my thoughts for a while to come.