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If I had $100, I would buy…

March 10th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Content - Language Arts, Voicethread, Working with photographs

What would you do with $100?  Miss Jackie and Mrs. C’s morning class share their ideas on this Little Bird Tale.  The images were created using photofunia. Please share your feedback!( The afternoon class will be posted shortly)  

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Put yourself in the picture

March 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Working with photographs

While there are many tools that allow you to put an image on a billboard or a poster (for example, BigHugeLabs), Photofunia takes it a step further.  Here you put yourself on Mount Rushmore, on the moon, or on an artist’s canvas. A few of the images would be considered risqué by my late grandmother, [...]

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Images of a bomb

February 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Science, Content - Social Studies, Content Area, Working with photographs

The New York Times site (Capturing the Atomic Bomb on Video) has a collection of atomic photographs along with audio from one of the remaining cameramen.  This set of 20 some images range from testing to implementation.(from TeachersFirst)

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What was there?

February 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Social Studies, Working with photographs

Take historical photos and overlay them on Google Street views and you have What Was There.  You can fade into the present (or back into the past).  It is currently in Pre-Beta (so they are looking for folks to test it).  You can upload your own photos or create an account.  But no account is [...]

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