Digital Camera/Photostory ideas

Ok, you all knew it wouldn't be too long before I got on here with an idea for using technology. I've heard some people using the Photostory program on the Dells to add pictures to our kids' stories to make them come alive. Here's another idea for Photostory. Take pictures that show/represent your vocabulary words for that week. Load them into Photostory and narrate the pictures, relating them to the vocabulary words. The kids especially love to see pictures of us acting out or portraying our vocab. words.

If photostory isn't your thing, you can take digital pictures and load them into powerpoint or another picture viewer on your computer and let the kids see it as a slide show.

If you don't have time to take your own digital pictures, search the internet for existing pictures and save them to your computer.

To do this in Google, go to www.google.com to bring up the traditional web search. Then look in the upper left corner of your browser and click on image. Doing this will have Google search the web for images, not websites.

Primary teachers, below is a link to a website that has some amazing pictures of alphabet letters occurring in nature.

http://www.rockdale.k12.ga.us/personal/mholbrook/dig_photos/default.aspx

Every grade level has a digital camera, and all of our kids respond to visual learning. I know we can't compete with their video games, but using the cameras regularly can really hook them in to what we're already doing.