Some ideas about Uses for Images in Learning
1. To encourage vocabulary development
Wordle can display a collection of words from a poem, speech, book or other piece of text on an interesting "word cloud" format: http://Wordle.net/create
PicLits are opportunities to choose image and then related words... simple really, but interesting... http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
2. To entice, interest, intrigue, engage...
Remember we can do LOTS with PowerPoint or Keynote...
Revealing images bit by bit
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Voicethread is another amazing tool - get students looking, listening and talking too at http://voicethread.com
http://voicethread.com/?#u7792.b267075.i1399522
Animoto is an easy tool to create video from still images and interest students: http://animoto.com
an example: http://animoto.com/play/1OJP0ugnPSGbL33V3NgXBw
4. To illustrate a point, idea or concept... or to show what one has learned or what one knows...
another Animoto example: http://simplyteaching.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-animoto-video-poems-based-on-red.html
Geometry Around us, example: http://greenlocalschools.org/Page/4912
