Teaching with Digital Images

You've finished the first portion of the iMovie project - creating a digital story. So, you've learned the tool, but we haven't yet talked about how this tool can assist in the teaching and learning process.

There are multiple examples of teaching with digital video and still images. Let's view a few of them:
Watershed Documentary - High School Science
A Living Alphabet - Elementary Language Arts
Meet the Artist - Middle School Social Studies and Art

You can view many more lesson ideas/student examples at the Apple Learning Interchange.

But creating digital video and still imagery is more than just a digitized retelling of facts. You can use images to help students with problem solving and decision making --these would be LoTi levels 3-5.

What standards in your content area lend themselves to digital images? What learning styles can be supported by the use of digital images? What teaching strategies can be supported by using digital images? Does it matter who is creating the image - the teacher or student? Does it matter as far as LoTi levels? Learning?

For Thursday:
1. Review the iMovie project description which is due at the beginning of class on Thursday. Completing the iMovie/digital story with your group is only 1/2 of your grade.
2. Create a new webpage called: digital images
3. On your new webpage, write a brief description of the iMovie that your group created and provide a link to the movie.
4. On the same webpage, list 4 examples of teaching/learning with digital images. Include a mix of video and still examples. Use screen shots and descriptions to tell about your examples. You can do a search with the phrase "teaching with digital images" and you'll find a wealth of resources, or you can search the Apple Learning Interchange site for your 4 examples.
5. Also on that same webpage, write a reflection on the process of developing digital images for teaching and learning. Talk about what you have learned and how the examples you found can be used in your subject area/grade level. Make sure to discuss examples of teacher and student use of the tools.
6. Don't forget that you can view student examples from Maymester to get an idea of what you might write about (just keep in mind that the topic for their imovies was different than yours but the reflection assignment was the same). Make sure that you do not plagiarize from previous student work.
7. Publish your page - we will access it after Thursday's class in order to grade it. You do not need to send an email with your webpage address for this assignment.