A picture is worth…
…your brain’s attention.
As we Huzzahnians have discussed (and expert researchers have told us), vision trumps all other senses. We attach meaning and recall better if there is an image connected to a message. Is this why advertising is so successful?
We are going to get busy with images this week: finding the right ones for the messages in our posts, and as important, giving credit where credit is due. This means finding images we have been given permission to use and giving attribution to the artist or photographer.
We’ll do this in class and write a “how to” page so you can do the same thing from home. We will use a few sites such as Flickr and tools to learn the technical details.
And we will respond to Miss Wyatt’s challenge to add images: choose one of the following activities:
1. A place to start:
Go to one of your previous posts and add an image to make the post have eyeball appeal. Give credit! Then write a new short post with a link to the improved one inviting us to notice the difference.
(From Miss W:)
2. Visit one of the image sites
…and choose a great image. Write a post about that image and remember to include the attribution. This means you have told readers where you got the image from. Look at the URL for the image – this does not mean Google search images but the original site where the image was put on the web.
3. Choose five images
…which, put together, tell a story without any writing from you. Remember to choose a great title for this post. Remember also to give attribution for the images. ”
Looking forward to SEEING the results!
Image: (227/365) Look by Sarah G
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October 19th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Do I see a round of 5-card-flickr coming on? Really enjoying your students’ posts.
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Jan Smith Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Maybe a Division 4 version of 5-card-flickr. Something for us to aim for!
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October 24th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Thanks for the reminder. I am just starting to get into the blogging idea and this is a great idea for my staff to also think about when blogging with their students.
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October 25th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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