Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Using a Digital Camera to Measure Skyglow
This is a great project for someone that is interested in both stargazing and photography. Bright city lights and even the light of the full moon obscure the dimmest stars, which can make identifying constellations more difficult. This...
Learn My Way
Learn My Way: Using a Digital Camera
In this online course, students will learn about digital cameras, how they work, and how to download photos from a digital camera to a computer so that they can be shared with friends and family.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Digital Photo Contrast
What do you do if you take a photo and it turns out too dark or too bright? You can use your computer to fix it for you. In this experiment you will investigate how changing the contrast of a digital photo will change the colors and...
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Short Courses: Digital Cameras and Digital Photography
This page on shortcourses.com provides links that will answer all of your questions regarding digital cameras and digital photography. Some topics include: using your digital camera, editing digital photos, choosing a digital camera, and...
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Department of Defense
Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 1: Past/present [Pdf]
In this first module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about the history of photography, different styles and movements, photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, tools photographers use for expression, and how...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 5: Invention/creation [Pdf]
In this fifth module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about how to take photographs that reflect a personal aesthetic, they learn how to use Surrealist techniques, they manipulate their images to create new material,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Photography With Near Infrared Illumination
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have an extra sense? What if you could hear above the normal range (ultrasound) like dogs or bats? This project shows you how you can use a camera, tripod and a special filter to take...
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Photography tips.com: Digital Photography
This site from PhotographyTips.com offers an excellent and detailed definition of digital photography and many links to more useful information on the topic.
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University of Central Florida: Mathematics Classroom Uses for the Digital Camera
This site has a few creative lesson plans on using the digital camera in a mathematics classroom. Includes geometry and measurement activities. (The link for the counting book does not work in archived version of site.)
University of Maryland
Using a Digital Camera in the Classroom
This resource provides information about using digital cameras in the classroom.
Scholastic
Scholastic: 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras
This resource presents 100 different ways to use a digital camera in the classroom.
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Photonhead: Film and Digital Camera Simulator
Learn about three major camera characteristics not only by reading about them but practicing using them online.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Photography: Past to Present
In the lesson plan, learners will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Digital Image Processing
Students who are mathematically inclined can use the student version of a program like MatLab or Mathematica to convert a digital image into numbers, then perform operations such as sharpening or special effects. This is a great way to...
wikiHow
Wiki How Category: Digital Photography
A dozen articles concerning digital photography tips and ideas. You have the ability to edit the information to make it more successful for other users.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are You Wearing?
Learners will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Digital Pinhole Camera
If you sit under a leafy tree on a sunny day, you may notice spots of sunlight on the ground from light passing through spaces between the leaves. Try putting a piece of cardboard on the ground and examining the spots of light on the...
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4 Teachers: Using Digital Cameras for Classroom Projects
This article from 4Teachers.org details the many benefits of using a digital camera in the classroom, exciting ways to incorporate pictures into student work, and advice on getting started. There is also a handout you can use to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Altering Reality
This lesson teaches students how to create a mixed media alteration of a digital photo using a printed picture and tracing paper.
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University of Central Florida: English Classroom Uses for the Digital Camera
This site has nine great lesson plans involving the use of a digital camera in a language arts class. There are suggested activities for students in every grade level.
Other
Photography Tips and Techniques
Great tips from a professional photographer on dozens of different topics and issues related to taking the best possible pictures. How to use a flash, how to take an interview portrait, photographing silhouettes, how to photograph glass,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
This language arts lesson uses technology to assess learners' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence about the picture...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring Velocity With a Video Camera
A video camera records 30 "frames" or distinct images per second. (That's for an NTSC camera in the U.S. PAL cameras in other areas of the world take 25 frames per second.) You can use this fact to time events and measure velocity. One...