Week 9 :: iPhoto Basics

v    Objectives

Students will be able to use standard photo-editing software to crop, enhance, and edit pictures.  Students will also be introduced to the concepts of exporting in different media types and resolutions.

v    Standards

Students will work individually to import several batches of school pictures, sort, crop, and enhance, then place the original batch into a slideshow to show alongside their edited versions of the same batch. 

v    Anticipatory Set

Nothing catches students’ attention like seeing pictures of themselves.  Teacher shows brief slideshow of student pics, then heads directly into the Teaching phase.

v    Teaching

a.     Input

Practical items like red-eye reduction, zoom, importing from camera, importing from folder, and exporting slideshows into movies will be taught intermixed with more academic concepts like the rule of thirds, contrast, saturation, etc. 

b.     Modeling

Students take a single photo from the server and bring all the practical and conceptual teachings to bear on the one photo. 

c.     Check For Understanding

Students do not go on to the next phase until they have adjusted everything.

v    Guided Practice/Monitoring

Students take a batch of photos down from the server, modify them, and export them into a movie. 

v    Closure

Students get two machines next to each other playing the same batch and invite classmates (and teacher) to come and watch.

v    Independent Practice

Students are expected to edit more photos from the vault of student photos on the server, then check out a camera to take a self-multi-portrait of five photos that define life at LaPine Middle School.