“PICTURE THIS”Ideas for using images in

Geography Teaching(Slimmed down version !!)

Produced at http://www.letterjames.de

FIRST FIND YOUR IMAGE…1. http://community.webshots.com – over 300

million images

2. http://www.flickr.com – browse by tag

3. http://www.pbase.com – new pictures every day

4. http://www.geograph.org.uk

5. http://www.geographyphotos.com - £47.50 per year

6. http://www.picasa.com – free photo sorting and editing tool

7. http://gallery.hd.org/index.jsp - miscellany of stuff...

8. http://www.fotki.com – another photo-sharing site

9. http://www.rws1.alivewww.co.uk/windows/index.php?PageID=1

or you could always take your own….

STARTER IMAGES….

Picture Pile tool from

http://www.picasa.com

Select 5 images to make a pile to represent a

story

Pictures from BBC News

Photo collages produced with

http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/

MONTAGE IT…

DEFORESTATION

PAINTSHOP IT…

Animation by Tom Biebrach from an original image by Richard Allaway.

Also check out http://www.worth1000.com for some seriously altered photos…

6X6 IT…

An idea from Tony Cassidy’s RADICAL GEOGRAPHY site, which came out of an INSET presented by Steve Bowkett

http://www.radicalgeography.co.uk/43.html

for more ideas…

Next slide has National Parks 6x6 produced by me…

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

These examples were created using Photoshop – can also be used for starters. e.g. David Rayner example from

http://www.geointeractive.co.uk

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/

GEO-LOCATE IT…

Using MEMORY MAP or ANQUET mapping software, you can place diagrams alongside mapping, or

on GOOGLE EARTH.

RASTERBATE IT…Take any image, and turn it into a huge poster…

Ideal for displays, or covering up those unsightly areas in the classroom…

http://arje.net/rasterbator

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