Thing 8

The Parraghi horse photographs I took in Summer 2011

I believe that using photo software such as those suggested in Thing 8 are where the educational value of images really takes off. For example a great assignment in Language Arts would be to create a magazine cover featuring the image of a main character and article teasers that contain plot information, themes, etc.

In math I used a website called Glogster that allows students to make online posters that has hundreds of themes, frames, animations, and so on. The students had to design a poster that demonstrated their knowledge of combining like terms, inverse operations, and the distributive property. It worked really well.