*Digital+Images+in+the+Classroom

There are few tools in your arsenal as a teacher that are more powerful than digital images. You can use pictures to engage your students, document what they're learning, raise expectations, celebrate achievement and personalize the classroom. This Wiki page is dedicated to tools, resources, and ideas for you to use in capitalizing on the power of digital imaging in your classroom

a Word document development by former Special Education Master's Student Sample student image files for making a PowerPoint Slide Show PowerPoint with several student-generated samples of progress monitoring charts. Your mission is to create a one-slide PowerPoint file that features a progress monitoring chart that you create. It may use a "student's" photo, but it doesn't have to. It will be more valuable if you make it in cooperation with your classroom teacher for an actual student, but you don't have to. It should be graphic in nature, visually appealing, and appropriate for whatever behavior or skill you choose to focus on.

**Cool Sites to make things with Digital Images**
www.photofunia.com
 * Photofunia**
 * Photofunia lets you upload images that are magically inserted into a wide variety of professionally developed images. You can put students' photos into sketches, street signs, magazine covers..etc

www.bighugelabs.com
 * Big Huge Labs**
 * Big Huge Labs is similar to photofunia, but there is a wider variety of end products that you can create, including jigsaw puzzles, a picture cube, a motivation poster and more

Making a slide show from a bunch of images
1. Click the Insert tab. 2. Click picture, and select New Photo Album. 3. Click the File/Disk button under Insert picture from:. 4. Browse to folder that contains the pictures you wish to insert. 5. Select the pictures you wish to include in the new photo album, hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple images. 6. Click the Insert button.
 * PC** -

This is not a built-in feature on Macs. Instructions for getting around this limitation are available here
 * Mac**


 * For Both Mac and PC **
 * 1) Add a transition to a slide
 * 2) Enter a duration of 3 or 4 seconds
 * 3) Tell PowerPoint to Apply that transition to All slides


 * To make the slide show loop continuously **
 * 1) Go to the **Slide Show tab**
 * 2) Select **Set Up Slide Show**
 * 3) Turn on the option to **Loop Continuously until Esc**


 * To make the slide show play Automatically **
 * 1) Go to Save as...
 * 2) Save the slide show as a PowerPoint Show (pps) file.

Free Digital Image Editing Software
Gimp (for Mac and Windows) (link coming) Irfanview (link coming)

**Screen Capture Tools**
Mac
 * Use CMD-control-shift-4 to capture a region to the clipboard
 * Use CMD-shift-4 to capture a region to a file on the desktop

Windows 7 Windows XP > Free screencapture software. Easy to use, but it's worth checking out the help file first. > The company has other utilities that are worth checking out too. www.colorpilot.com
 * Use the snipping tool to capture a region and then decide whether to copy it to the clipboard or save it to a file
 * The snipping tool can be found at Start Menu>All Programs>Accessories>Snipping Tool
 * [|www.colorpilot.com/load/screen.exe]