Day 6:Using Multimedia Peripherals

It's really been a lot of fun carrying around my digital camera for the past month or so, taking pictures, altering them in Photoshop, and posting them on the Web. I have enjoyed learning about picture taking and these articles provided me with even more useful tips. Such as using a plain background or moving an object from the center of the photograph to the side or corner.
However, I think I got the most practical use out of the 1001 uses for a digital camera article. What a great resource to have. I really liked their ideas, especially our class book, and the welcome to class book ideas. As I was reading through them, I began to come up with several of my own ideas. Perhaps I could have the students create a classroom newspaper that combined the Web, pictures, audio commentary, graphics, and be available to readers online. Students would have to work together on editing student writing projects, picture taking, working with audio/video and web tools and all of this would focus on reading. They would also all be working together creating a final presentation using any multimedia tools they wished (teacher approved).
So it looks like I will be carrying this little digital camera around with me for some time to come. That’s OK though. If I can get my students more interested in reading and writing by having them take pictures with a camera, I would be happy to do so. :)