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=Picasa (and Photostory) in Education=

Below is a basic list of inspirational ideas for using Digital Imaging in education. Feel free to contribute additional ideas by clicking on "Edit This Page" above.


 * 1) Slideshows for Back to School Night or Open House
 * 2) Slideshows of Performances, Celebrations, Assemblies, or Field Trips
 * 3) Photo Yearbooks (For a school, a class, or a club!)
 * 4) Photo Journalism, Documentaries, or Dramatizations
 * 5) Time Lapsed Photography (Especially in science!)
 * 6) Class Books (Think big books!)
 * 7) Story Books (“Digital Story Telling”)
 * 8) How-To Guides (Address non-fiction standards!)
 * 9) Exercises in Classifying, Categorizing, or Compare and Contrast.
 * 10) Photos as Anticipatory Sets, Writing Prompts, or Review
 * 11) Document Learning (Great for parent conferences!)
 * 12) Photo Portfolios (Can be used for student presentations, too!)

And more...


 * 1) Alternative Assessment
 * 2) Celebrations of Birthdays, Star of the Week, Student of the Month etc. (images and captions)
 * 3) Math Dictionary (In general: Vocabulary Development... in social studies etc - land forms for example)
 * 4) Taxonomies
 * 5) Illustrate Life Cycles (or Water Cycle etc)
 * 6) Thank you for field trip volunteers

Note: Don't forget digital kits! Digital kits are a way of scaffolding students' learning by providing them with the raw materials for a multimedia project... so they can get right to the thinking and not waste time searching. (See [|kitZu.org] for examples.)