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Activity 5 - Editing Photos for Your website
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__**OVERVIEW**__
Students will be shown how to edit the photos they took in activity four to improve them for their website. This gives students the opportunity to play with editing software and create their own graphical images.

__**OBJECTIVES**__
This activity will give students the opportunity to become familiar with image editing software.

__**ACTIVITY**__
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 1. If you have a smart board in the classroom connect it to a computer that has the software mentioned in step two installed onto it. if you don't have a smart board ensure all students can see the screen.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Using the Smart board demonstrate a photo editing software that you are familiar with. Common software used in schools are Photoshop or Gimp which is a free photo editing software similar to photo shop. For this description i will be using gimp (pictured on the right). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Be sure to go slowly for students and cover all the options that you would like them to demonstrate in their photo editing. Pick only a few things at this stage as this may be the first time students have edited photos. Run through how to save a photo into a classroom folder named "Classroom Edited Photos" so they do not get mixed back in with the originals. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Run a short demonstration on how to upload their photo onto the specified tab on the classroom website and write a short sentence about their photo choice. This demonstration may have to be repeated again later as students towards the end of the week who have not had a chance to upload may need reminder on how to carry out this task. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Give students the opportunity to edit their photos throughout the week, make it clear to students that they must have demonstrated atleast 2 of the editing options you demonstrated and that any further editing is up to them. This is a great demonstration of their creativity and also gives them a chance to play with the software and become familiar with it. __<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">**CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS** __ * What uses does photo editing software have? * Where can we find edited photos? and why do you think they are edited? * Why are photos used in things like websites and magazines ?

__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">**SUGGESTIONS** __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- It would be advisable to use this software previously and really familiarize yourself with all the edit options available. **__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RESOURCES __** [] - this is the website that you can download the free photo editing software "Gimp" it's available for all operating systems and provides you with screen shots on how each system will run the program.