How can you use what you have learned in PhotoShop in your classroom? Please add your name, what grade and subject you teach. Also, read the other postings to get some more ideas!
I created a lesson focusing on the differences between Fiction and Nonfiction (I work with elementary aged students). I used photoshop to create pictures that represent both Fiction texts and Nonfiction texts. Students will be put into groups and they will work together to determine whether their given picture represents Fiction or Nonfiction to help supplement the lesson.
I will use what I have learned in PhotoShop to plan a beginning of the year "Get to Know your Classmates" activity for an elementary school classroom. The students will create an All About Me picture collage that may include pictures of themselves with family, "favorites" such as food, movie, sport, subject, etc., and a picture of something that defines them as a person. The PhotoShop tools that the students will be using are the magnetic lasso tool to cut out images, the transform tool to move and resize images to fit appropriately in the collage, and the text tool to label the pictures that are included in their collage. Upon completion of this activity, the students will have the opportunity to present their All About Me collages to the rest of the class so we all can get an idea of what each other is all about.
I will use Photoshop in my middle school astronomy and physics classroom to showcase the eight moon phases: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, and waning crescent. The students will find one image of the full moon and use layers, the lasso tool to cut their image, the cloning tool to fill in empty spaces in the sky, and the text tool to label and explain each phase.
I like using photo shop to create new and fun ways for the students to see their instruments and the techniques they will be using with them. It isn't not only cool to see a instrument but it is also cool to see it in the hands of famous people, or athletes. I believe that this helps to make a positive personal connection for them.
In my T&R classes I will have them make a collage for the digital display signs. One is in the parking lot and the other is in the stadium and can be displayed during home games.
I teach high school mathematics. In my Geometry class, I always have my students do a "Geometry Scavenger Hunt" to look for geometric terms in nature, at school, at home, or anywhere they can find them. They are required to take photos of the geometric terms (example: parallel lines) and present their findings to the class. I could use Photoshop to teach them how to alter their photos to make the geometric term stand out or just to make them look better. They would probably enjoy the process and have fun making their pictures come to life.
I teach high school art, and can use this program for one project that I do where I have students re-create a famous piece of art work and add their own artistic touch. Instead of painting it, they can use the different photoshop tools and techniques that we just learned.
I teach first grade and the lesson I designed is for a geometry lesson. In the geometry unit, students need to be able to decompose shapes. Students will be working in pairs, using pattern blocks, to see what a shape can be broken into. When completed with the activity, students will self correct their answers. An answer key will be provided. The shape images on the answer key were created with Adobe Photoshop. Additionally, the students will review the answers whole class. Larger images of the shapes will be displayed on the Smartboard. These images will also be created with Adobe Photoshop. (The division of shapes will contain colors, patterns, textures, etc. – which six year-olds will love!)
Also a HS Math Teacher... I will use the Filter: Pixelate: Mosaic. Students will choose a picture and use this filter with a large cell size (100 or more) to make an indistinguishable version of their original image. They will then make another copy of their original layer and use the filter with a smaller cell size. They will create a series of these photos showing how the smaller and smaller divisions we use: the closer we get to the actual picture. We will use this idea to talk about big ideas in Calculus of the derivative and area under a curve. We can also discuss approximation methods by judging what cell size is "good enough" for our photos and how that relates to methods of approximating slopes of tangent lines and areas under curves.
I teach high school art and I use Photoshop all the time in my Computer Graphics classes. Students use it to edit and create images to be used in posters, page layouts, brochures, etc. However, in my Drawing and Painting class I could have students take pictures of all their finished work and create a poster showing everything they completed each marking period or semester.
I teach 3rd grade and one way that I could use photoshop is for my Star of the Week collage. The students all ready make a collage with their interests and I could help them use photoshop instead of cutting and pasting. The next idea for a math lesson would be to use the clone tool to help with multiplication. If I give the students a picture of one group they could clone it to show a multiplication fact. I liked Kimberly's idea for the moon phases. They would start with the same moon every time and they would use the lasso tool to change the moon. It would make the moon phasing meaningful for them. In Social Studies, there are a few lessons that can be done with a map. You could have the students use the lasso tool to separate the map into the regions. I could also give the students a globe and have them label the parts using the different tools. I could also darken parts of the map and have them tell me what is missing. In 3rd grade, I would use the photoshop tool and have them complete the activity that I create for them.
Michael Gramp Business Education Teacher at Clifton High School. I can use Photoshop for my Computer and Financial Literacy classes. My students complete many projects using Powerpoint during the year, but I would love to use Photoshop to be able to have more options for my projects. For example I would love to use Photoshop for a project I do during my internet search engine section of my Computer Literacy class. I have the students create their own Google Doodles using the skills we have learned during the school year. With Photoshop the students would be able to develop more creative projects.
Photoshop could be used by music students to create album covers for a project in which they are researching a musician or band. I could also see myself using it to tweak photos for slideshows, SMART board lessons and concert programs.
General Music/Chorus K-5 (although the lesson I've developed would be appropriate for high school music students, which I have also taught in my district.)
Justyna Ratajczyk I am a teacher of handicapped in middle school. Photoshop is a very challenging tool for my students so I have thought long and hard how I could use it in my classroom. I have decided that my students could create animalized self portraits based on the book we are reading - "Stuart Little." Students will have three characters to pick from ( four choices might be too many): Stuart, Margalo, Snowbell. I have scheduled this project for the last week of our summer program. The students will need one-to-one help but it looks like so much fun! They all love animals and I am sure they will love this assignment!
Samantha DeRose I teach high school Language Arts. Photoshop is a valuable tool that my students can use in a variety of aspects in the classroom. They can create collages, use it to make vocabulary more visually appealing, they can create book covers, or design their interpretation of their favorite scene in a novel, play, or poem. I can use Photoshop to visually enhance anything that I teach from grammar to vocabulary, to informational text, to literature. I find it to be an invaluable tool which teaches many skills.
Glenny Lapaix--I teach 7th grade Language Arts . I can use Photoshop in my classroom to enhance and add visual appeal to my lesson presentations with edited images; students can also create a silhouette from an image of themselves and insert adjectives that describe them. This can be a great getting-to-know-you activity for the beginning of the school year. I feel that Photoshop not only adds visual appeal to many activities, but fosters student creativity.
Katie Zinsmeister - Technology Facilitator/Trainer for a school district. I can use Photoshop while working with many aspects of it while creating training materials. I would like to design a series of courses to assist teachers with working with photographs to enhance their instructions in small instructional pieces.
I can use photoshop and have my students create an original artwork, using the tools and techniques we learned during this class. I can also have my students use Photoshop to help crop, touch up, or add more detail to a photo that they want to use as a reference for a painting or drawing.
Erin Mitschke, 5th Grade, Science, Reading, Writing, Math I plan on using Photoshop as a way to have students relate to, and understand the importance of setting and character description in a story. I know the students will enjoy taking pictures of themselves that reflect what is happening in their story. Our writing program places an emphasis on "show, not tell," so students will use their picture to describe facial expressions in their writing. In addition, students will find and save pictures that reflect the setting in their story, which again, they will write with as much detail and description. These are two aspects we return to many times throughout the year, and I think that starting the year off with this project will be a great way to have students not only get excited about Photoshop, but their writing as well!
I am the moderator of our middle school yearbook. Photoshop would be a big help in making our book that much better. Also I would have the kids do an assignment with the pictures that we take from our Outdoor Education trip, where they would put together collages of our week in the wilderness.
Matt Westervelt, 7th LA - Charles DeWolf MS - Old Tappan
I will have the students create a name tag for themselves on the first week of school using photoshop text, and brushes, etc.
ReplyDeleteI created a lesson focusing on the differences between Fiction and Nonfiction (I work with elementary aged students). I used photoshop to create pictures that represent both Fiction texts and Nonfiction texts. Students will be put into groups and they will work together to determine whether their given picture represents Fiction or Nonfiction to help supplement the lesson.
ReplyDeleteI will use what I have learned in PhotoShop to plan a beginning of the year "Get to Know your Classmates" activity for an elementary school classroom. The students will create an All About Me picture collage that may include pictures of themselves with family, "favorites" such as food, movie, sport, subject, etc., and a picture of something that defines them as a person. The PhotoShop tools that the students will be using are the magnetic lasso tool to cut out images, the transform tool to move and resize images to fit appropriately in the collage, and the text tool to label the pictures that are included in their collage. Upon completion of this activity, the students will have the opportunity to present their All About Me collages to the rest of the class so we all can get an idea of what each other is all about.
ReplyDeleteI will use Photoshop in my middle school astronomy and physics classroom to showcase the eight moon phases: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, and waning crescent. The students will find one image of the full moon and use layers, the lasso tool to cut their image, the cloning tool to fill in empty spaces in the sky, and the text tool to label and explain each phase.
ReplyDeleteI like using photo shop to create new and fun ways for the students to see their instruments and the techniques they will be using with them. It isn't not only cool to see a instrument but it is also cool to see it in the hands of famous people, or athletes. I believe that this helps to make a positive personal connection for them.
ReplyDeleteMichael Gleason, 4-5th grade instrumental music
In my T&R classes I will have them make a collage for the digital display signs. One is in the parking lot and the other is in the stadium and can be displayed during home games.
ReplyDeleteI teach high school mathematics. In my Geometry class, I always have my students do a "Geometry Scavenger Hunt" to look for geometric terms in nature, at school, at home, or anywhere they can find them. They are required to take photos of the geometric terms (example: parallel lines) and present their findings to the class. I could use Photoshop to teach them how to alter their photos to make the geometric term stand out or just to make them look better. They would probably enjoy the process and have fun making their pictures come to life.
ReplyDeleteI teach high school art, and can use this program for one project that I do where I have students re-create a famous piece of art work and add their own artistic touch. Instead of painting it, they can use the different photoshop tools and techniques that we just learned.
ReplyDeleteI teach first grade and the lesson I designed is for a geometry lesson. In the geometry unit, students need to be able to decompose shapes. Students will be working in pairs, using pattern blocks, to see what a shape can be broken into. When completed with the activity, students will self correct their answers. An answer key will be provided. The shape images on the answer key were created with Adobe Photoshop. Additionally, the students will review the answers whole class. Larger images of the shapes will be displayed on the Smartboard. These images will also be created with Adobe Photoshop. (The division of shapes will contain colors, patterns, textures, etc. – which six year-olds will love!)
ReplyDeleteAlso a HS Math Teacher... I will use the Filter: Pixelate: Mosaic. Students will choose a picture and use this filter with a large cell size (100 or more) to make an indistinguishable version of their original image. They will then make another copy of their original layer and use the filter with a smaller cell size. They will create a series of these photos showing how the smaller and smaller divisions we use: the closer we get to the actual picture. We will use this idea to talk about big ideas in Calculus of the derivative and area under a curve. We can also discuss approximation methods by judging what cell size is "good enough" for our photos and how that relates to methods of approximating slopes of tangent lines and areas under curves.
ReplyDeleteI teach high school art and I use Photoshop all the time in my Computer Graphics classes. Students use it to edit and create images to be used in posters, page layouts, brochures, etc. However, in my Drawing and Painting class I could have students take pictures of all their finished work and create a poster showing everything they completed each marking period or semester.
ReplyDeleteI teach 3rd grade and one way that I could use photoshop is for my Star of the Week collage. The students all ready make a collage with their interests and I could help them use photoshop instead of cutting and pasting. The next idea for a math lesson would be to use the clone tool to help with multiplication. If I give the students a picture of one group they could clone it to show a multiplication fact. I liked Kimberly's idea for the moon phases. They would start with the same moon every time and they would use the lasso tool to change the moon. It would make the moon phasing meaningful for them. In Social Studies, there are a few lessons that can be done with a map. You could have the students use the lasso tool to separate the map into the regions. I could also give the students a globe and have them label the parts using the different tools. I could also darken parts of the map and have them tell me what is missing. In 3rd grade, I would use the photoshop tool and have them complete the activity that I create for them.
ReplyDeleteI teach physical education. I will be using Photoshop for various slideshow presentations
ReplyDeleteMichael Gramp Business Education Teacher at Clifton High School.
ReplyDeleteI can use Photoshop for my Computer and Financial Literacy classes. My students complete many projects using Powerpoint during the year, but I would love to use Photoshop to be able to have more options for my projects. For example I would love to use Photoshop for a project I do during my internet search engine section of my Computer Literacy class. I have the students create their own Google Doodles using the skills we have learned during the school year. With Photoshop the students would be able to develop more creative projects.
Photoshop could be used by music students to create album covers for a project in which they are researching a musician or band. I could also see myself using it to tweak photos for slideshows, SMART board lessons and concert programs.
ReplyDeleteGeneral Music/Chorus K-5 (although the lesson I've developed would be appropriate for high school music students, which I have also taught in my district.)
Justyna Ratajczyk
ReplyDeleteI am a teacher of handicapped in middle school. Photoshop is a very challenging tool for my students so I have thought long and hard how I could use it in my classroom. I have decided that my students could create animalized self portraits based on the book we are reading - "Stuart Little." Students will have three characters to pick from ( four choices might be too many): Stuart, Margalo, Snowbell. I have scheduled this project for the last week of our summer program. The students will need one-to-one help but it looks like so much fun! They all love animals and I am sure they will love this assignment!
Samantha DeRose
ReplyDeleteI teach high school Language Arts. Photoshop is a valuable tool that my students can use in a variety of aspects in the classroom. They can create collages, use it to make vocabulary more visually appealing, they can create book covers, or design their interpretation of their favorite scene in a novel, play, or poem. I can use Photoshop to visually enhance anything that I teach from grammar to vocabulary, to informational text, to literature. I find it to be an invaluable tool which teaches many skills.
Glenny Lapaix--I teach 7th grade Language Arts . I can use Photoshop in my classroom to enhance and add visual appeal to my lesson presentations with edited images; students can also create a silhouette from an image of themselves and insert adjectives that describe them. This can be a great getting-to-know-you activity for the beginning of the school year. I feel that Photoshop not only adds visual appeal to many activities, but fosters student creativity.
ReplyDeleteKatie Zinsmeister - Technology Facilitator/Trainer for a school district. I can use Photoshop while working with many aspects of it while creating training materials. I would like to design a series of courses to assist teachers with working with photographs to enhance their instructions in small instructional pieces.
ReplyDeleteI can use photoshop and have my students create an original artwork, using the tools and techniques we learned during this class. I can also have my students use Photoshop to help crop, touch up, or add more detail to a photo that they want to use as a reference for a painting or drawing.
ReplyDeleteLindsey Almeida- High School Art
Erin Mitschke, 5th Grade, Science, Reading, Writing, Math
ReplyDeleteI plan on using Photoshop as a way to have students relate to, and understand the importance of setting and character description in a story. I know the students will enjoy taking pictures of themselves that reflect what is happening in their story. Our writing program places an emphasis on "show, not tell," so students will use their picture to describe facial expressions in their writing. In addition, students will find and save pictures that reflect the setting in their story, which again, they will write with as much detail and description. These are two aspects we return to many times throughout the year, and I think that starting the year off with this project will be a great way to have students not only get excited about Photoshop, but their writing as well!
I am the moderator of our middle school yearbook. Photoshop would be a big help in making our book that much better. Also I would have the kids do an assignment with the pictures that we take from our Outdoor Education trip, where they would put together collages of our week in the wilderness.
ReplyDeleteMatt Westervelt, 7th LA - Charles DeWolf MS - Old Tappan