Using Google photos is an awesome technology addition to the classroom. I had not experienced building a photo album before. I thought it would be hard but it was not very difficult. I would like to use this photo feature in the classroom with my 5th grade students so that they can create a video documentary of their 5th grade experience. We would start taking pictures starting at the first day of school. Students would start saving and uploading their own pictures and adding text to the album reminding them about the events around the picture. Students would create a biography about their year long activities and special occasions. At the end of the year they would be able to share their photo albums with their family and especially their friends. The students would see how much they have changed and matured at the end of the year. I myself would keep my own album of everyone and my favorite pictures as a whole class. At my campus we are very big on dressing up for Dr. Suess birthday, for career days, for NFL jersey day, for Halloween and every other chance we can wear fun attire. I would also include other campus staff so that students can remember everyone on our campus. That would be so cool to watch a few years later. Up until 4 years ago, I had done the yearbook for my campus for the past 15 years and I really miss those experiences.
Another educational activity would be a Science photo album. Students would find pictures of the subject matter we are working on and build an album for that subject. The albums would include pictures of such items as landforms so that students could keep real life pictures of what a real canyon, delta, glacier, or valley really looks like. This would really help connect students to their learning and students would be able to study off their albums. Students would also be able to create slides with their vocabulary words and add photos or pictures associated with the science words/vocabulary.
I think I would also do a Social Studies project with my students. They would be able to create a photo timeline of an important characters in History. Maybe students could select to create a photo timeline of Martin Luther King's life and present to their fellow classmates. Students would share their photo findings with the whole class so that everyone can see their characters documentary. This photo technology would be very helpful for students to learn and help to prepare them for middle school so that they can include photos in powerpoints or create a photo diaries of themselves they can share. Google photos is a really cool and I am planning to use it to store all my photos and share with my family the albums created.
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ReplyDeleteHey Bertha,
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of using Google Photos to have students create a documentary throughout the year. With your campus having so many dress up days, I think its a great opportunity to utilize Google Photos to help with keeping track of all the photos your students are taking and create a fun, interesting and authentic assignment out of it.