The ability to Photoshop offers a whole new world of image creation and manipulation for teachers to use to engage their students. There are many image manipulation websites and applications available to turn an image into what you need such as Be Funky, GINP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), PicMonkey and PS Express for mobile devices. Even our Microsoft applications have basic editing options when inserting images. This new form of technology can be used by teachers to engage their students through making the image more striking, including important information, or making it something to remember through humour such as creating a meme. Teachers can also let students engage in their creative side to make things such as posters and banners to be printed or digital title pages, blog or profile icons or cover pages for sites such as Facebook and YouTube. The options are endless which would prove worthwhile to invest in a subscription to gain a full range of editing options and let students thoughts of bringing creativeness and their learning run wild. I did a bit of playing around with PicMonkey to create a bit of a class profile banner with the thoughts that students could do the same and make it a part of their digital learning label. I tried to make one from scratch but it was not coming together very nicely with images not aligning, instead I went through some templates and came with this basic banner:
There are also so many websites to be explored that present high quality images that are related to content such as the Australian Geographic Photo Gallery Site. I used an image found in the Saltwater cruising gallery composed by Quentin Chester and experimented with the Be Funky editing website to experiment with making it communicate its magic. The first image was the original image by Chester and the one below is the one that has been edited.
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| Image sourced from: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/photography/galleries/2019/01/saltwater-cruising/ with credit to Quentin Chester |
Other websites that provide teachers with images to incorporate into their teaching delivery include the Geography Photos site for a small subscription fee, the free Geography Site Image Gallery, the Pics 4 Learning site and many many more with exploration of the web. It is great to use these images in the teaching process as it can help students to remember the content through attractive images and cooperate with the copyright requirements. Now knowing that there are a lot more options to incorporating images and image manipulation into lessons, I am so excited to experiment and discover many of the different options that are available.
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