Take a look at your phone and you’ll likely find hundreds or thousands of photos and videos (heck, there are more photos from my daughters first weeks as babies than from my entire childhood). Now take that number and triple it and you’ll get close to the number of pictures the average middle and high school student has taken.
As teachers, we must make good use of these habits of taking pictures and taking videos. Here are three ways to use students’ photo-taking habits for use in the classroom.
Create a gallery of footage.
Instead of having students scour the web for public domain or Creative Commons media, let them search a gallery of classroom media. Create a shared Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox folder where students can upload images and videos that will allow other students to use them in slideshows and other multimedia projects. In this video I demonstrate how to make b-roll galleries with your students.
Create digital portfolios of physical work.
Ask students to take photos of their work on paper or other physical media and upload them to a folder that is shared with you. Of course, students can also link to digital projects. Seesaw, Spaces, and Google Sites are great platforms for projects like this.
Tell a visual story.
Are you trying to get students to tell stories about themselves? In that case, let them use photos to tell that story.
Did your class go on a field trip? If so, your students probably have a large number of photos. Ask them to use them to summarize the highlights of what they learned on the field trip.
Canva and Adobe Express are great options for making simple websites to tell a story. here is a demo how to do that in Canva and here is a demo how to do it in Adobe Express.
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