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Cameras, Comic Life and iPhoto in the Classroom
Our quick brochure will help you get started with your camera, iPhoto and Comic Life, while the web offers a myriad of excellent resources to explore. From there, we'll apply our new skills to using cameras with kids, using the ideas below and some sample activities.
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First Project: Portrait Relay - line up and take turns taking "head and shoulder" portraits of one another, until the last person in line takes the first person's photo. Choose a nice background and be sure to get in close. Use your portraits to make Trading Cards in Comic Life or AppleWorks!
More Project Ideas and Project Photos
For the following projects, you can plan and snap photos today, use your own photos or our sample photos.
ABC Book - Photograph the letters of the alphabet as you find them on signs, packages, or in natural shapes. Or, make a human alphabet by having 1-3 partners make the shape of each letter with their bodies. Use the "macro" setting on your camera for close-up shots. Come up with an inventive approach or text for the book. (This idea is adapted from the Apple Learning Interchange.)
Acting Out - Make a story by photographing your partners acting out the scenes of a familiar fairy tale or original story. Make an iPhoto book &/or slide show, and add the text.
Book of Patterns - Photograph patterns you find around you, and label them -- e.g. ABAB or AABAAB, etc. See our kindergarten pattern book as an example.
Counting Book - Take photographs of groups of coins or other small objects to illustrate the numbers one to ten. Use the photos to make a counting book. Choose an "angle" -- think up a rhyme for the counting book, show one number in 10 different ways (e.g. 8 pennies, an octagon, a nickel and 3 pennies, etc.)
Feelings Book and Cards - Photograph one another making various expressions - excitment, fear, anger, saddness, etc. Write captions such as "When I ___, I feel ___." Or, combine photographs of scenes (e.g. someone falling) with photographs of feelings (e.g. a close up of someone crying). Make flash cards and use as a matching game. (See also "Feelings from A to Z" at the Apple Learning Interchange.)
How-To Book - show how to do a favorite activity in photographs by taking photos in sequence. How to tie your shoe, how to buy something, how to use a phone, camera, iPod or other piece of technology. How about a book comparing good and bad photos?
Invitations - iPhoto and Comic Life are great for making postcards, announcements, invitations and thankyou notes.
Near and Far - Take close-up "macro" shots of an object (or person, with their permission) and then take a distant shot of the same subject. Or take multiple photos of the same object from different, interesting angles. Place the photos together on the same page. Alternative: Take a photo that's so close, it's hard to tell what the object is. Write a clue to go with the close-up, and then photograph the entire object for your answer key. This activity gets even better if you have access to a USB microscope!
Seasons - Use our sample photos to make a slide show or book about the four seasons. Add inventive text.
Shapes Book - Use our shapes photos (taken by kids) or your own to make a book about shapes. Alternative: Compare 2D and 3D shapes by photographing examples of each.
Social Stories - Stage and photograph scenes common to your students' ages. Describe the problem and solicit solutions from your students. See Carol Gray's web site for more on social stories.
Use ideas based on any of our Sample Activities to come up with your own book idea.
Take One, Take Two - take two or more shots of the same subject (or use our sample photos) to demonstrate good and bad shots - is the person's head cut off? Is it shaky? What's in the frame and what isn't? Did you use a flash? Any weird, distracting stuff in the background? Where is the focal point? Too close? Too far? What makes one photo better than another? Why?
Illustrate a Poem – Brainstorm, then photograph the images that come to mind when you read a poem. Compose your photos and poetry in a slide show or Garage Band.
Music & Drama – Put a slide show to music you record in Garage Band.
Science: Seasonal Changes – Photograph the same tree every Monday for the full year. Notice how it changes and write about it. Create a slideshow, iPhoto Book or Comic Life Book, or use the photos on a calendar.
Historical Story – Act out and retell an historic event using digital photos and ComicLife, with costumes and props.
Photo recipe – Use photos and captions to make a recipe book, like ours for Ice Cream Pie
Step-by-Step – Photograph each step of a project, job or science experiment
Download sample photos by right-clicking (Win) or control-clicking (Mac) on each photo.
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