From Humdrum to Heart stopping… Can we really use Imaging tools in elementary school? By Kim Correiro Libs 602 Summer 2014
From Humdrum to Heart stopping…
Can we really use Imaging tools in elementary school?
By Kim Correiro Libs 602 Summer 2014
How do you use images in your
career? • Presentations• Websites• Newsletters• Teaching curriculum• Assigning projects• Diagrams and charts
TuxpiTuxpi Photo Editor60 Photo Editing Tools• Change colors, create montages
and add text to pictures.• Crop, rotate and resize pictures
with ease.• Edit photos with many different
effects.• Add picture frames and borders.• Online photo editor - works
directly in your web browser.
Information retrieved from www.tuxpi.com
Applications
• make a booklet for book report and edit images using this tool
• Find image to demonstrate vocabulary words by adding text to the photos
Limitations: • Only use for editting images,
must have a photo to use first
Big Huge LabsImage retrieved from www.bighugelabs.com
http://bighugelabs.com/
Applications• Students can use historical
pictures, advertise wanted posters, biographies, or
• Design magazine covers or book covers for book reviews or stories they have written in class
• Introduction of themselves to their peers in upper elementary and middle school and present them to their peers
• Science content; layers of the earth, parts of a cell, science notebook pages
An interactive way to use images
Image ChefApplications
• Using the templates, create notes, photo frames, mosaics, visual poetry and more
• Librarians can use this in newsletters, websites
• Students can create their own advertisements
• Teachers can add content to their lessons in a visually appealing way
Glogster • https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=JIhCDKbAoIU
• A 3 minute easy how to and overview of this interactive tool.
• create virtual posters combining text, audio, video, images, and hyperlinks and to share them with others electronically.
Applications:• Online posters that can be
used in any curricular area; science concepts, book reports, character analysis, vocabulary webs
• Example; natural disaster preparedness kit in 5th grade
• Teachers and librarians can create up to 200 accounts under their education version and monitor privacy settings with students
• Private and safe online
Limitations: will take practice to navigate and use the tools By Tehescmarts. The Cell. Digital image.
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