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Cameras, Comic Life and iPhoto in the Classroom

On the Web

To learn more about using digital photography, Comic Life and iPhoto with kids, explore the following web sites. These links will open in a new browser window. Remember to bookmark this page, or close each new window to return to this page!

To add your own suggestions or links, please visit our Digital Photo Wiki.

Digital Photography with Kids

• Youth Learn strategies for teaching digital photography to kids www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/multimedia/photo1.asp
• Adobe's Tips for digital photography with kids www.adobe.com/education/digkids/main.html
• Digital Camera: Inside the Classroom and Out – an Edutopia essay by Jim Moulton www.edutopia.org/community/spiralnotebook/ (April 2006)
• Children's Use of New Technology for Picture-Taking - an article in the peer-reviewed journal First Monday. www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_9/garner/
• iLife Lesson Plans from Apple Learning Interchange http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/li.php
• Ten Tips for Better Photos - includes examples. www.betterphoto.com/exploring/tips.asp
• Tips on writing and using Social Stories from Carol Gray – www.thegraycenter.org

Learn to Use iPhoto

Choose the tutorials that work best for you. Check your version of iPhoto! Run software update to be sure you're using the most current version you can. (Note: you must pay to upgrade from iPhoto 4 to 5, and from 5 to 6)

• Don't forget iPhoto’s own Help: Help Menu: iPhoto Help. From there, you can open a printable pdf called iPhoto: Getting Started.
• Apple’s iPhoto 6 Support: www.apple.com/support/iphoto/
• iPhoto 6 Tutorials: www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/iphoto/
• Apples' iPhoto Page: www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
• iPhoto 6 Tutorial from MacZealots: maczealots.com/tutorials/iphoto/
• iPhoto 5 Hot Tips: www.apple.com/support/iphoto/hottips/
• iPhoto 5 Tutorials from .Mac, with audio and movies: www.mac.com/1/learningcenter/Modules/ipOrganizing_index.html
• iPhoto 5 Tutorials from Atomic Learning: www.atomiclearning.com/iphoto5
• iPhoto 5 Tutorial from U Texas: comprehensive, step-by-step help. www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/iphoto5/
• iPhoto 5 Tutorial from Cal Poly: a printable pdf document http://tls.calpoly.edu/guides/apple/Apple_iPhoto5.pdf
• iPhoto 2 & 4 Tutorials from Atomic Learning:
  www.atomiclearning.com/iphoto_2x
• Apple Learning Interchange: resources for digital learning.
  www.apple.com/ali/
• How to use keywords in iPhoto – allforces.com/2006/03/07/tagging-iphoto/

Comic Life Resources on the Web

• Built-in Help – Access Comic Life's excellent built-in help from the Help menu
• Learn about and download Comic Life from plasq.com
• “Pre-emptively Answered Questions” from Plasq – plasq.com/comiclife/paq/
• Plasq’s online discussions will answer even more questions – plasq.com/forum/
• Atomic Learning Lesson Idea with Comic Life – www.atomiclearning.com/la_fatfit_comiclife
• Using Comics to Learn Foreign Language & Grammar www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/creativeteaching/cartoons.asp
• Podcast: An interview with Comic Life's creators: http://technosavvy.org/?p=311
• A quick overview and review of Comic Life from www.mac360.com/ which claims a "zero learning curve" for Comic Life.
• Download a Comic Life tutorial from t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/

Clip Art ©2005 by K. Haugen, Eugene, OR