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HP Digital Imagination 2007 is a fun and creative competition open to all primary and post-primary schools in Ireland. There are loads of fantastic prizes to be won and with a choice of themes to kick start your imagination, entering couldn’t be easier – so why not do it now! |
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You can use photography with your pupils as a visual learning experience with a wide range of school subjects:
- Story boards are made easy using photography. Assign your class to visually illustrate scenarios, then groups put their own words to the pictures to tell a story in any language.
- Give your pupils a list of verbs/ vocabulary which they must then translate using photographs
- Pupils take a photo of one of their favourite things, and use this as a spring board for a short essay
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- Bring your class out to explore a historical site or building in your area and take pictures as part of history projects.
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Geography/ Nature Studies |
- Your class can use photography as a tool for investigating the local environment, things that you find on nature walks, changes in the area they live etc.
- As a class project, ask pupils to photograph different examples of the geography in their area: natural/ man-made
- Ask them to think big: trees, landscape, weather… then ask them to think small: leaves, flowers etc
- Illustrate the Seasons- over a series of months ask your pupils to show the changes that occur in nature.
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- Suggest to your class that they take pictures of the things they like to paint and draw and then use their photos as inspiration for these.
- As a class activity, create a montage from photographs either taken by the students themselves or found in magazines, then put them together to make up their own new images.
- Allow your pupils’ imaginations to run wild – get your pupils to focus in on materials, etc.
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Digital images are fun to manipulate using a computer.
- Cut and paste together different images, change the colour, use creative filters, print them out or send them as emails to friends
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| Experiment with the chemistry of the photographic process to investigate how light sensitive materials work. |
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To develop your understanding and knowledge about the history and appreciation of photography these places are a must to visit:
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
www.irish-photography.com
Tel 01 6714654 Fax 01 6709293 |
| A Gallery that shows mainly contemporary photography exhibitions. They welcome group visits and a tour of the gallery can be arranged with an informal talk on the current exhibition by contacting the education officer Trish Lambe. There is also a Bookshop and Darkrooms for rent. |
National Photographic Archive |
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
www.nli.ie
Tel 01 6030374 Fax 01 6030371 |
| An archive that houses a collection of approx 300,000 photographs mostly Irish and historical with some contemporary. Services include a reading room, reprographic service, permission to reproduce photographic material and a shop. |
| Lacock Abbey, Whiltshire, England |
| This was once the home of William Fox Talbot and is now a small museum housing some of his collotype images and original photographic equipment. |
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Useful applications for teachers |
The Digital Camera as a Teaching Aid
- Create photographic illustrated books comprised and composed by the children e.g. Adventures, Drama, day to day life in the classroom, or a remaking of a classic ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ or a contemporary tale.
- Create an exhibition of ‘life in their town’
- Use a photo as a prompt for narrative or descriptive writing
- Document with a camera to demonstrate Ireland’s changing multi-cultural society (Racism, Awareness)
- Use it to help produce your school newspaper
- Send a photographic tour and guide of the school to a twinned school
- Use it to create graphics for written reports and presentations
- Use photos within letters that the students write to pen pals
- Send photos via e-mail to electronic pen pals
- E-mail class updates to parents, with attached photos
- Write a class novel with live-action photos as illustrations
- ABC alphabet book [use photos of real objects to enhance letter-sound correspondence]
- All About Us [take photos of students and let them write about themselves]
- Use within posters
- Publicise a class play or project with photography
- Use photos to make personalised name tags or desk plates
- Take photos to record projects and presentations for use at Open House
- Create a digital class archive
- Observe weather over a period of time
- Create a student portfolio
- Help to illustrate the process for complicated projects
- Illustrate a science experiment
- Document the growth of a classroom plant or pet
- Use photos at a school showcase
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