Lowell Elementary Librarian Ginger Baron invited me into her elective technology class this past school year and I had a great time facilitating a fully integrated project called Connections. After those research projects were done we decided to use Photostory just for fun. We broke the kids into small groups, handed them digital SLR cameras, and let them loose on their gorgeous campus. The idea was for them to take pictures of each other in that great setting.
After the photos were taken, I did a PowerPoint presentation that dealt with the issue of resizing photos for use in multimedia and the web. Today's cameras have fantastic resolution but that means they are way too big! We looked at several ways to resize including PowerPoint, Shutterfly Studio, Picasa2, Snipshot, and a wonderful open source program called Gimp. (more on Gimp later)
Students resized, cropped, manipulated, and added filter effects to their photos. They added titles, and either created their own music or used specially selected free music files. Students were not to use more than two video transitions, and certain design elements were to be followed in order to get a high rubric score.
A bonus part of this was getting to make their own South Park alter-ego and using it in the project. Another bonus was a lesson using Gimp to make their own "bling." Josh was the only one who got his done in time to put into the project.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
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