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“PICTURE THIS”Ideas for using images in
Geography Teaching(Slimmed down version !!)
Produced at http://www.letterjames.de
FIRST FIND YOUR IMAGE…1. http://community.webshots.com – over 300
million images
2. http://www.flickr.com – browse by tag
3. http://www.pbase.com – new pictures every day
4. http://www.geograph.org.uk
5. http://www.geographyphotos.com - £47.50 per year
6. http://www.picasa.com – free photo sorting and editing tool
7. http://gallery.hd.org/index.jsp - miscellany of stuff...
8. http://www.fotki.com – another photo-sharing site
9. http://www.rws1.alivewww.co.uk/windows/index.php?PageID=1
or you could always take your own….
STARTER IMAGES….
Picture Pile tool from
http://www.picasa.com
Select 5 images to make a pile to represent a
story
Pictures from BBC News
Photo collages produced with
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/
MONTAGE IT…
DEFORESTATION
PAINTSHOP IT…
Animation by Tom Biebrach from an original image by Richard Allaway.
Also check out http://www.worth1000.com for some seriously altered photos…
6X6 IT…
An idea from Tony Cassidy’s RADICAL GEOGRAPHY site, which came out of an INSET presented by Steve Bowkett
http://www.radicalgeography.co.uk/43.html
for more ideas…
Next slide has National Parks 6x6 produced by me…
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
These examples were created using Photoshop – can also be used for starters. e.g. David Rayner example from
http://www.geointeractive.co.uk
http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/
GEO-LOCATE IT…
Using MEMORY MAP or ANQUET mapping software, you can place diagrams alongside mapping, or
on GOOGLE EARTH.
RASTERBATE IT…Take any image, and turn it into a huge poster…
Ideal for displays, or covering up those unsightly areas in the classroom…
http://arje.net/rasterbator
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