This document provides an agenda and resources for a technology professional development day workshop on using iPhoto in the classroom. The agenda includes learning how to organize photos into albums, alter images, create slideshows with music or narration, and share creations online. The document also references how media standards are addressed in the Common Core and provides many ideas for using photos in the classroom, such as for seating charts, documenting events, and illustrating stories. Royalty-free image and music sites are listed, and tutorials are provided for creating slideshows and adding narration or music.
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iPhoto in the Classroom
1. Using iPhoto in the
Classroom
Technology Professional
Development Day
Marteana Davidson
November 6, 2012
2. AGENDA
✴ Learn how to organize photos into albums
✴ Alter images
✴ Create a slideshow with music and/or narration
✴ Share your creation online using www.Schooltube.com
3. References to MEDIA in the
Common Core Standards
http://www.frankwbaker.com/media_core.htm
Informational Texts 6th Grade
RI.6.7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually,
quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Grade 7
RI.7.7. Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text,
analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech
affects the impact of the words).
Grade 8
RI.8.7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print
or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
Grade 11-12
RI.11-12.7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different
media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a
question or solve a problem.
4. References to MEDIA in the
Common Core Standards
Grade 9-10
SL.9-10.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or
formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy
of each source.
SL.9-10.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio,
visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding
of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Grades 11-12
SL.11-12.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats
and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions
and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and
noting any discrepancies among the data.
5. IDEAS for using iPhoto in the
Using Photos as a seating chart Book Trailer
Create a Student of the week Show safety rules
Take a photo of each letter of the Vocabulary book
alphabet
Classroom inventory
Use pictures to make a virtual tour
Photos to explain a hobby/
Add photos to your web site collection/”How to”
Use pictures to make a map of the Document field trips, special events
school
Illustrate stories or poems
Photo classroom procedures
Use photos as a reminder to a teacher or
Welcome to Our Classroom book substitute of how to plug in cables to the
TV, VCR or computer
Create a family tree
6. IDEAS for using iPhoto in the
Passports during a travel unit
Display student work on your
website by taking a digital photo of Sequencing/ Step by step
it directions
Take photos of family traditions or Story about the student
scan photos that students bring for
a Traditions Book Prompt creative writing
Concept illustration for curriculum Seating charts
areas
and many more....
Rhyming book
8. Royalty Free Music
http://www.freestockmusic.com/
http://www.audionautix.com/ -
option + click to download
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
http://soundbible.com/
http://www.brainybetty.com
Garageband
9. iPhoto
✴Stores and organizes photos and digital images
✴Edit images
✴Compatible with other iLife programs: iMovie,
Garageband
✴Publish and share your multimedia project online,
DVD, website and create books
11. How to Create a Slide show
✴Gather 10 - 15 photos (or as many as you would like)
✴Create an album
✴Drag the photos into the folder in iPhoto
✴Choose a theme and consider the following:
Effects
Transitions
Titles
Music
12. Export your Slideshow
✴ Select Slideshow (not album)
✴ File Export
✴ Save as
✴ Choose a size for your Quicktime file
✴ Export
13. Student iPhoto Slide shows
SanFrancisco - http://bit.ly/pwbR71
Church Hill Downs -http://bit.ly/nPVeEQ
