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Pinhole cameras are fun and easy to make and allow the opportunity to slow down and practice photography composition skills. The simple cameras are made out of mostly recycled materials and take stunning, unique black and white photographs. Visit my blog to view or download the how-to and read a lesson plan for how the cameras can be used to teach photography composition in a yearbook, photography, or media class. https://briannaenglish.wordpress.com/maker-education-movement/lesson-using-a-pinhole-camera-to-teach-photography-composition-skills/

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Welcome to Make Cycle #6 in the Making Learning Connected collaboration! For this sixth Make Cycle, we will think about the power of images, and what it means to compose a text visually. When composing with images, we are forced to think critically in a way that focuses us on our intent in order to get a clear message across. To this end, we will focus our explorations on the concept of a 5-Image Story. According to Wesley Fryer’s “Mapping Media to the Common Core,” a 5-Image Story is a “collection of five images which tell a story of some… Read more »

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Streetview, walking and taking pictures. Nice way to learn to watch where you walk. Take pictures while your are walking around. Put the pictures together, and tell the story. (The story could be fictional or factional, a short story or a 400-pager) Write down something about the process of taking pictures and thinking about the story. Some people may not take pictures of the street, the stones, but of the surroundings, or people, or letters, or … Some people prefer walking inside a building. Tools: camera Olympus pen 14-42 mm lens. (any camera will do) photo software Gimp, resize all… Read more »

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Take some time to do some noticing–wherever you are, inside or outside. Figure out a way to share what you noticed…and you’re done (for now). Here’s an example of my noticing: http://thinkingthroughmylens.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/on-noticing/ Be sure to add your examples below to share with others.

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