Hello Everyone!!
Before I read this article I really had no idea what digital editing was all about. I heard about it before from friends who were interested in photography, but nothing to the extent I learned from reading this article. This article examines everything we need to know about digital photography, and how we as perspective teachers can one day use this article to our advantage in the classroom. First of all the author points out the difference between a disposable camera and a high tech camera. Well the difference is that there is no difference. In fact the same picture quality is found in all cameras no matter what the cost. Which is good news for me, (because I am not very good with a camera) and now knowing that we (future teachers) can not spend a fortune on camera's for our classroom will open up new ideas and events for our future students.
She talks about the Resolution of the film, and the elements that combine to make a picture come out to its best quality. Grains refers to the sharper image of the film, while the elements comprising the film is called the pixels. The Resolution is very important because it "determines the suitability of an image for many uses" pg. 19. On the second page it talks about editing photos, and how to correctly save your images to your computer. They suggest using JPEG, because it is a compression scheme that will discard some image information, and you need to continue to re size the picture and save it very often.
The article insists that knowing how to size, and take pictures through a camera is an important learning tool for current teachers, and perspective teachers. If we look around the education landscape we see that on-line education is taking it over, because if it weren't we would not be talking about all of this information. It helps teachers make lectures, and power point a little bit more interesting when they have images that accompany their lectures. Even at the end of the article it suggests that teachers will be able to use these digital images to create geometrical figures for math and science.
Thank you for your time,
Andrew Romo
Hey Andrew,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. I am also not very photo-savvy but I realize that as an aspiring teacher, a basic knowledge of taking photos, editing them and posting them online in a blog or web site format will be a big part of my teaching life. As the future teacher will need to be comfortable creating online sites for his/her students to reference, that teacher must know how to make such sites visually engaging and stimulating. It makes sense that we must have an understanding of photography so that we can better understand how to utilize it in an educational setting. Thanks for sharing!
Collin
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that I do not know too much about digital editing either! I was glad to read that inexpensive cameras are just as useful as the ones that cost “an arm and a leg”. This is valuable to know because as future-educators money is always going to be an issue. Also, I had never known that it is best to name files as JPEG, I had just always saved files as JPEG but never really knew why, and so I was interested to read that!
I also really appreciated your comments concerning the uprising of online schooling. Using technology, such as video cameras and digital editing, may help to bring the focus back to the classroom. You mentioned using images to accompany slideshows or lectures, which I think is a really great idea. Even adding mini-modules to aid our instruction would help to increase student engagement, and help bring some of the benefits that people find from online schooling, into our classes!
Thanks for your post, I found it very interesting!
Best,
Catherine Weldon