In class, Rachel and I completed a digital photo scavenger hunt. Our scavenger hunt focused on middle grades language arts. We searched for words that are verbs or nouns to photographing dictionaries. The most challenging treasure to find was a misspelled word, but we did it! Following our completion of the activity, we then transferred the photos onto our computer and imported them into Picassa. Picassa is a free Web Album tool that is great for photo sharing! You can now view our Scavenger Hunt right above! This would be great for classroom collaboration. I then downloaded my powerpoint into my google docs. I arrived at Google Docs by logging into my gmail. Upon uploading it here, Goggle Docs gave me the option to copy and paste the embedding code in order to include it above in my Blog. Yay!
This activity would work well in the classroom for doing a hunt like the one we completed in language arts, or having the students create one of their own. The student could also make a web album for a pen pal. The students might use photos to create a magazine or newspaper article for a book project. Another great project would be synchronizing a song with various pictures within a web album by creating a slideshow. The students would choose specific photos for specific meanings within their chosen song. This would facilitate the skill of figurative language identification.
However, all of these types of activities take for granted that my students will have access to digital cameras, or that their school will provide them. In theory, this activity is beneficial, but the actuality of its probability may be unlikely. The last example of use listed above, however, could be completed in the computer lab.
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