Exploring Paint

I have always underestimated the Paint application which has come preloaded on nearly every PC with a Windows interface. In October, many of the teachers at Spring Hill Elementary were enrolled in an Adobe Photoshop course through CCBOE. Each was challenged to incorporate digital photography in their classroom instruction and to prepare a lesson plan that would outline this implementation. A fourth grade teacher, Ms. Dement had come across an idea that was posted in the October issue of Technology Times which utilized Paint for basic image manipulation. Gilda had been the one to post the idea for this project in an earlier issue of her technology newsletter. This was the perfect time to introduce the students to their unique drive space located on the SHE server. Ms. Dement and I uploaded all of the student photos to a Flickr account and tagged them so that they could be located easily during classroom instruction. Once the students pulled them down in a lower resolution and saved them to their folder on the server, we deleted the images from Flickr. Students were directed to save both the original image and the one that had been manipulated using Paint. Check out some of the results in the slideshow above!