Digital Images

In this class session we learned all about digital images and the many ways to collect them for instructional use within the classroom. The professor first reviewed with us about the five different ways to collect images. The five procedures were as follows: perform a scan, take a digital photograph yourself, find an image on the web, find an image from a C.D. collection, and capture a screen image on your computer. After review time we were all assigned to groups of 3 and given a task based on our teaching concentration. I was assigned to the English and foreign language group. We all had to go on an image based hunt. My groups assignment was to find images of things normally discussed in English class such as, a noun, a verb, a contraction or a synonym. We were given 30 minutes to complete the hunt with our camera and each person within the group was to take at least one photograph. Our group really had fun with this assignment. We found some very interesting ways to visually represent some of our words. Once we were done finding our images around campus, groups met back in the computer lab to finish up. Afterwards, the class went upstairs to look at the "big box of art." This is a clip art C.D. collection that UTK owns for student use. We each picked out what images interested us and saved them to our USB's. This was all part of our second assignment, which was to collect one image using each of the five procedures listed above. Once done finding our C.D. image we moved on to scanning a picture brought in by each student. While some students were scanning there individual pictures, others were searching the web for images. The last two tasks included using an image taken by yourself and then taking a screen shot of your organized and labeled collection. I have included here an image taken by me. This assignment was fun and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the class puts together in the image collection movie.