This blog was about making school more interesting and fun by incorporating photos into the classroom. You can post pictures of your students on a private page online that only your students and parents have access to, which will not only give students an incentive to participate, but will ease parents' worries that their child is not being taken care of during the school day. Photos can also be used to decorate work that the students have done, such as art projects or papers. These works suddenly become more interesting to students, parents, and faculty walking down the hallway because there is a picture associated with the assignment.
My favorite use of photography in the classroom from this blog is to have the students use a digital camera or iPad to take pictures of something specific to share with the class. For older kids, this can be objects associated with the math assignment that is due at the end of the week. For younger kids, you can send them around the room looking for something that has stripes, something blue, or certain shapes. You can then hook the device up to the computer and project the students' findings onto the board.
Finding ways to link lessons to your set curriculum can be hard. Using a camera can make it easy! There are countless ways that students are able to find relationships between the past and present through a camera and old pictures, and the author of this blog mentioned students finding examples of cause and effect throughout the school day. As soon as you take out something that is not used every day, like a camera, students suddenly become more interested in what you are talking about and are more willing to participate and have fun with the projects.
So get ready, grab your camera, and start teaching!
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2013/09/5-fantastic-photos-using-camera-classroom
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