Digital+Cameras


 * Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom: **

> || Project 365 || Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast. || > || Alphabet Book || Make learning the ABCs more fun with a personalized alphabet book filled with familiar faces and things. ||
 * 1) The different ways a teacher could use a digital camera in the classroom are to make calendars, projects, cards (Thank You, Birthday, etc), collage, announcments, slideshows, scavenger hunts, storybooks,
 * 2) Students would use a digital camera in the classroom for learning by taking pictures of their surroundings so they get real world experience while learning, they can get more of a visual way of learning when they have to take picutres too.
 * 3) [[image:camera.gif width="94" height="49"]]
 * 4) 1001 Uses for a Digital Camera
 * 5) || Geometry Walk || At about any point in a geometry course, give student groups a list of terms which they have encountered in the course. This could include the geometric shapes and terms associated with parallel lines and angles. Provide each group with a camera and a 20-30 minute deadline. Send the students out to find real examples of each term which they will document with the camera. Most of the items should be easy to find examples of while a few should be more challenging. ||


 * Best Camera for the Classroom: **


 * 1) The best camera I would use in the classroom would be the Nikon Coolpix S5100
 * 2) 12.2 Megapixles, 5.00x Zoom, 2.71 inch LCD,
 * 3) This is the best camera for the classroom because you get a lot of great features for a great price, there is a video mode, the megapixles gets enough detail you can do most anything from posting online to printing pictures, there are a lot of features in the camera such as red-eye, macro shooting, and in-camera editing.
 * 4) [[image:nikon.jpg width="179" height="108"]]
 * 5) Imaging Resource


 * Basics of Digital Cameras: **


 * 1) All digital cameras have these basic parts: a lens, an image sensor, memory to hold the pictures, batteries, and a way to transfer the pictures to a computer
 * 2) **Resolution**: almost always given as a pair of numbers that indicate the screen setting's width and height in pixels. **Pixels**: are millions of tiny squares that make up digital pictures. **Megapixel**: equal to one million pixels.
 * 3) A Digital Work Flow is **Input**: taking pictures, digital camera, cell phone scanner. **Image Processing**: editing pictures, manipulate images using editing software. **Output**: display pictures, print, email, insert, share images.
 * 4) <span style="color: #ff7a00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The printing process ranges from at home, online, and at the store. Once you are in the printing programs you select the pictures you want, the size, and quantity then you hit print. It is very simple.


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Taking Good Pictures: **

<span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Techniques to taking a great picture
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Get down on their level
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Use a plain background
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Use flash outdoors
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Move in close
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Take some verticle pictures
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Lock the focus
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Move it from the middle
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Know your flash's range
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Watch the light
 * <span style="color: #1e86eb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Be a picture director


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Macro Shots: **


 * 1) <span style="color: #25c13f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A Macro shot is the ability to produce an image that is as big (or bigger) on the film plane (or digital sensor) as it is in real life, it is not zooming that does this but the magnification properties of the lens.
 * 2) <span style="color: #25c13f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The steps to a macro shot are understanding the limitations, bending the light, prepare yourself mentally, have patience and timing, execution, and focusing.
 * 3) <span style="color: #25c13f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Macro shots are used to explore the world that would be really difficult to view by the naked eye
 * 4) <span style="color: #25c13f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:macro.jpg width="145" height="99"]]
 * 5) <span style="color: #25c13f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:img_3393_thm.jpg]]
 * 6) <span style="color: #25c13f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Classroom ideas with macro shots: 1. Have the students take a picture of their favorite thing but in a macro shot then the class has to guess what it really is. 2. During recess have the students split into groups and find an insect or other small thing outside and take a picture of it, then put them into a class book of things found outside. 3. Assign a homework assignment for the kids to take a macro shot of something found in or outside of their house, then bring the picture back to the class and make a macro class photo book.

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