Thing 13

I must say, I enjoyed doing Thing 13. I probably spent more time than was needed to do this assignment. It was actually fun being able to enhance the images using the different features available. I think students would enjoy using photo editing sites on assignments they do.
I would like the students to work in groups to create their own Health Magazine. Each student would need to complete three pieces of work – an article, an advertisement, and a letter to the editor expressing an opinion about a particular health issue – to be included in the magazine. Students can choose from a wide variety of health related topics. All images, pictures, advertisements, editorials, and articles in the magazine should promote a positive body image and healthy eating and fitness habits and be free of stereotypes. The magazine will also include a biography page about each author. Of course, the magazine would also need an eye-catching, colorful, and attractive magazine cover, as well as a table of contents. The students could use the photo editing sites to create an attractive magazine cover, as well as edit the images throughout the magazine. The students could also enhance a picture of themselves which they will include on their biography page. I think the students would enjoy editing the photos as much as I did. We could use the computer lab to work on this assignment.
When exploring the photo editing sites, I discovered that the students could also make movie posters, turn a picture of themselves into a poster, or even use photos of themselves and their friends to make card games. This sounds like fun!
As far as outside of the classroom, I could use photo editing sites to enhance any pictures I took. I know it made a lot of difference when I edited the picture of the chipmunk for Thing 13. The picture was so much brighter and colorful. Instead of deleting a drab image, you could enhance it and keep it. It was fun to see the different possibilities to display your images to make them more interesting.



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