Digital Photography in the Classroom

Digital photography provides teachers with a valuable tool to customize and personalize learning in their classrooms. Pictures clarify and add depth to the educational process.

Some of the many ways in which digital photography can be applied to the classroom learning environment:

To capture classroom activities for newsletters and presentations
To record observations for science inquiry
To record field trips, or provide virtual tours
To serve as writing prompts
To illustrate directions or demonstrate a procedure
To provide images of primary sources
To create web content
To create a documentary
To document student growth for portfolio inventories

More ideas and examples:

Digital Cameras in Education
Going Digital in the Classroom -- many examples of the topics listed above
Using a Digital Camera in the Elementary Classroom
Classroom Applications for Using a Digital Camera
Digital Cameras in the Classroom -- examples
75 Ways to Use Your Digital Camera -- classroom applications
1001 Uses for a Digital Camera
Using a Digital Camera in the Classroom