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How have you used digital images?
Digital images can be used in many ways to facilitate the teaching of literacy skills. Following are a few ideas for integrating images into your lesson plans.
- Illustrate lesson handouts
- Create student journals
- Teach action verbs
- Make flash cards
- Enhance your class website
What are additional ways you might use digital images to assist learning?
How are digital images being used for language learning?
Following are a few examples of websites created for educational purposes by teachers.
How to make a Jack-o-Lantern
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7123/jack.html
Barry Bakin's Student Projects
http://www.literacynet.org/esl/minigrants/webactions
Susan Gaer's Student Stories
http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/beg1/beg1.htm
Charles LaRue's online exercises for English Prepositions
http://www.mcedservices.com/Prepex/QUIZEX.HTM
Heather Turngren's Lehman Center project for low level learners
http://abeell.mpls.k12.mn.us
Dan Hoisington's ELL online web match up games
http://laofamily.ods.org/ell
How can you create lessons with digital images?
Following are a few sample lesson handouts to illustrate how you can use digital images to create handouts for your own learners.
Here is a sample lesson made with a digital camera Mike's Desk handout
Here are sample lessons made with Purdue U free clip art
Action's handout
Alan's weekend
Free Clip Art from The Center for Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Instruction at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart
Use the following direction sheets to create your own handouts with digital images.
Copying and Pasting
Transferring images from camera to computer
Inserting pictures from a file
Copyright restrictions
Create simple direction sheets for digital cameras your ABE program owns so that teachers can quickly and easily use them to add every day images to handouts or student bio projects. Here are two examples.
Sony Cybershot
Olympus Camedia Zoom
How can you be sure you're following copyright laws?
All website content is copyright protected. Therefore it's always best to look around the website and see if the author allows you to copy images for educational purposes only. Check the following website for more copyright information related to using digital images from the Internet.
http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html#copy
Where can you begin looking for digital images?
Google image search: click on images,
http://www.google.com
Pics 4 Learning
http://www.pics4learning.com
Barry's Clip art
www.barrysclipart.com
Teacher files Clip Art
http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
Free Images from England
http://www.freeimages.co.uk
Free Stock Photos
http://www.freestockphotos.com
How can you choose the right digital camera?
Choosing a digital camera
Remember to check the MLC educational technology training calendar to see if there are any workshops on using digital images coming up that can help you get started. | 
