This week I played with still images. I have been researching still images for a presentation I am doing with some colleagues. As a teacher I think still images are an extremely important resources for teaching not just art but so many other KLA's. Students are bombarded with images every day it has been suggested that sour students will watch 20,000 hours of television comare that to the 12,500 hours they will spend at school! It is more important than ever that we engage our digital natives with resources and material they identify with.
Flikr is a great free resource to be able to access photographs and using a program like Picnik to manipulate the image is one possible way to use technology to scaffold critical visual literacy. Asking the students to look at the image is it real? What has been done to it? Why does it look strange?
I chose to manipulate an image I have used in my postings to compare a before and after using Picnik. I changed the colours, the size, the shading and contrast, by using rotation I flipped the image around.
(These images are from Flikr)
still images also work great when used with movie marker
ReplyDeleteThanks SImon
ReplyDeleteI think I remember your Art Presentation last year with the Eye Photos did you use Movie maker for that??