Thing 4: Photo Editing

I took a picture of a pinata that I purchased for my upcoming book fair. I took the picture using my iPad. When taking a photo with an iPad, you can press the side volume up button to take the picture instead of touching the screen to take the picture. This is very helpful with younger children so they can keep both hands on the iPad at all times.

After taking the photo, I opened the photo app and created a screenshot of my photo. I did this by pressing the "Home" button and the "Power" button at the same time. You will hear a camera shutter sound and the screen will go white for a moment. If you look in your photo app, you will see the original photo as well as your screenshot.

I used iPhoto to edit my original picture. I changed the coloring effects and added an ink effect border to the photo. See the edited photo (top photo) and screenshot (bottom photo) below.

You can definitely see the color difference between the edited photo and the screenshot.I uploaded my photos to Google Docs and placed them into my blog.

I had to look up how to take a screenshot of a photo on my iPad. I figured out how to upload my pictures into my Google Docs, but I did have trouble figuring out how to get my pictures from my Google Docs to my blog. I found this part of the task confusing. I really didn't figure out how to do it, so I downloaded my pictures from Google Docs to my computer and then uploaded them into Blogger. If I figure this part out, I will update my post. 

One thing to keep in mind when planning to use technology, is the users technology savvy. How can you instruct all students with various levels of 21st Century Skills at the same time on the same project? Will you have an instruction sheet, video instructions, model instruction, etc? 

I would use iPhoto with a collaborative art project with the art teacher. We could explore the use of shadow, light, darkness, color variations, focus, and blurring to teacher different art concepts and visual literacy. We can even connect it to mood and tone of a reading passage or literary work. Students could take a photo and edit it to match the mood of a book they are reading.